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The Life of Emile Zola is a 1937 American biographical film about the 19th-century French author Émile Zola starring Paul Muni and directed by William Dieterle. It premiered at the Los Angeles Carthay Circle Theatre to great critical and financial success.
The Life of Emile Zola: Directed by William Dieterle. With Paul Muni, Gale Sondergaard, Joseph Schildkraut, Gloria Holden. The biopic of the famous French muckraking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfus Affair.
- (9K)
- Biography, Drama
- William Dieterle
- 1937-10-02
Paris ca. 1870's, Third Republic, Nana (Erin O'Brien Moore) is among streetwalkers chased into a cafe where she meets Cezanne (Vladimir Sokoloff) and Zola (Paul Muni), whose breakthrough novel she will inspire, in The Life Of Emile Zola, 1937.
Nominated for five Oscars and winner for Best Picture, this biographical drama stars Paul Muni ("I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang," "The Life of Louis Pasteur") as the famed writer who risks...
Urgently relevant in an era of escalating bigotry and fascism, The Life of Emile Zola is a respectful and staid tribute to the French novelist, enlivened by Paul Muni's...
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- Paul Muni
- William Dieterle
- Warner Brothers
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After struggling to establish himself, author Émile Zola wins success writing about the unsavory side of Paris and settles into a comfortable upper-class life. However, Zola's complacency is shaken when Jewish officer Alfred Dreyfus is imprisoned for being a spy.
