Live Virtual Q&A following a screening (3:30 p.m. EDT) of Roman Polanski’s 2019 French thriller An Officer and a Spy. The event features author Robert Harris who co-wrote the film’s screenplay, based on his 2013 novel of the same name.
The César Award-winning film, originally titled J’accuse, earned Harris and longtime collaborator Polanski a César Award for the film’s screenplay. The duo previously won a screenplay César for The Ghost Writer in 2010, an adaptation of another Harris-penned novel, The Ghost. Harris also authored the novel Conclave, adapted into the film of the same name, for which writer Peter Straughan won the 2025 Oscar for best screenplay.
From Academy Award winning Director Roman Polanski (Chinatown, Rosemary’s Baby, The Pianist, The Ghost Writer) comes An Officer and a Spy, an adaptation of Robert Harris’ 2013 novel which reconstructs the Dreyfus Affair, the political scandal that divided France in the 1890s when Alfred Dreyfus, a young Jewish officer, played by Louis Garrel (Little Women, The Dreamers), is wrongfully convicted of treason amid rampant antisemitism. Academy Award winner Jean Dujardin (The Artist) plays officer Georges Picquart who believes in Dreyfus’ innocence.
The film, an exploration of institutional antisemitism, won the Grand Jury Prize and FIPRESCI (International Federation of Film Critics) prizes at the 2019 Venice Film Festival and led the race for the 45th Cesar Awards when it received twelve nominations, including Best Film, Director (winner), Actor and Best Adaption (winner).
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