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The Life of Emile Zola
film by William Dieterle
The Life of Emile Zola is a 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.
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Contemporary reviews ranked it as the greatest biographical film made up to that time.
In , it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."[1][2]
Produced during the Great Depression and after the Nazi Party had taken power in Germany, the film failed to explore the key issue of antisemitic injustice in France in the late 19th century, when Zola became involved in the Dreyfus affair and worked to gain the officer's release.
Some recent studies have noted the film as an example of Hollywood's timidity at the time: antisemitism was no