- Prisoner of Honor
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name = Prisoner of Honor
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director =Ken Russell
producer =Richard Dreyfuss
Judith James
writer = Ron Hutchinson
starring =Richard Dreyfuss
Oliver Reed
Peter Firth
Jeremy Kemp
Brian Blessed
Peter Vaughan
Lindsay Anderson
Martin Friend
Kenneth Colley
music =Barry Kirsch
cinematography =Mike Southon
distributor =HBO Films
released = Start date|1991|11|02
runtime = 88 minutes
country = UK
language = English
imdb_id = 102715"Prisoner of Honor" is a 1991
television movie made byWarner Bros. Television and distributed byHBO about the FrenchDreyfus Affair . It was directed byKen Russell and produced by Richard Dreyfuss andJudith James from ascreenplay by Ron Hutchinson.Plot
The film documents the events that saw a French Captain,
Alfred Dreyfus , sent toDevil's Island for espionage near the end of the nineteenth century. ColonelGeorges Picquart (Richard Dreyfuss) is given the job of justifying Dreyfus' sentence. Instead, he discovers that Dreyfus (Kenneth Colley), a Jew, was merely a convenient scapegoat for the actions of the true culprit, a member of the French General staff. His attempt to right the wrong sees his military career ended and the famous French author,Emile Zola (Martin Friend), found guilty of libel.Cast
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