The Life of Emile Zola
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 8 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 8, 2008
- Originally Released: 1937
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Paul Muni | |
Performer: | Joseph Schildkraut, Gale Sondergaard, Gloria Holden, Donald Crisp, Louis Calhern, John Litel, Henry O'Neill, Morris Carnovsky, Erin O'Brien-Moore, Ralph Morgan, Dickie Moore & Charles Richman | |
Directed by | William Dieterle | |
Edited by | Warren Low | |
Written by | Norman Reilly Raine | |
Composition by | Max Steiner | |
Cinematography by | Tony Gaudio | |
Produced by | Henry Blanke |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1937 -
Best Adapted Screenplay: Geza Herczeg, Heinz Herald & Norman Reilly Raine
Academy Awards 1937 -
Best Picture: Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1937 -
Best Supporting Actor: Joseph Schildkraut
Entertainment Reviews:
The best of the screen biographies.
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Maclean's Magazine
Last week Warner Brothers released a movie which is probably the outstanding prestige picture of the season. It is also one of the best shows.
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TIME Magazine
So simple and powerful is Muni's Zola that one feels him to be. not a shadow on a screen, but a living person.
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California Eagle
The film has all the elements of greatness. It is also remarkably accurate.
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The Spectator
Carefully mounted, well directed and acted, but basically the sort of well-meaning pap out of which Oscars are made.
Time Out
Stacks up well against many a film biography of the subsequent three-quarters of a century.
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ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Rating: 4/4 --
The most distinguished and most important contribution to the screen this year.
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New York Daily News
Product Description:
Paul Muni stars as Emile Zola, giving possibly his best performance in this excellent biography of the great writer, which won three Oscars, including Best Picture. The film's most unusual aspect is its evasiveness regarding the anti-Semitism that led to the terrible injustice of the Dreyfus affair. As Neil Gabler and others have pointed out, this can probably be attributed to the reluctance of the Jewish studio moguls to incur the ire of a society in which they still didn't feel entirely accepted. The film tracks Zola's early years, including his friendship with Paul Cezanne (Vladimir Sokoloff), and his uphill battle to expose in print the social ills that plagued France's lower classes. When success arrives with the publication of NANA, he garners an audience that can appreciate his exposés of the corruption of the nation's government, military, and business community. But it's in the Herculean effort to clear Captain Dreyfus (Joseph Schildkraut), a victim of anti-Semitism who had been framed on charges of military espionage and sent to Devil's Island, that Zola reveals in full force the tremendous courage that undergirded his achievment. High production values, an excellent cast, and an intelligent script all add to the film's extraordinary quality.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 118,303
- UPC: 883929002504
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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