Movie

The Old Docker

Le vieux docker

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.

Director

Armand Guerra

Screenplay

Charles Marck

Screenplay

Yves-Marie Bidamant

Status

Released

Release date

28/03/1914

Original language

French