The Old Docker (1914)

A re-enactment of the Jules Durand case. In 1910, Jean Jaurès [leader of the French socialist movement] took the lead in defending a working-class coal miner, Jules Durand, accused of complicity in and condemned to death for the murder of a labor leader. As in the Dreyfus Affair, a false dossier had been used to convict Durand. Jaurès argued that the memory of the Dreyfus Affair saved Durand, calling the case the working class’s Dreyfus Affair.

Released March 28, 1914 5 min None+

Genres: Drama, History, Short

Keywords: tmdb.socialism, tmdb.biography, tmdb.docudrama, tmdb.silent-film, mdblist.imdb-short, mdblist.has-trailer

Production Companies: Le Cinéma du Peuple

Country: France
Production Country: France
Languages: No Language, French