Film about Dreyfus by child-rapist Roman Polanski being banned

Started by yankeedoodle, April 26, 2021, 09:18:30 AM

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Alfred Dreyfus is being erased all over again
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/alfred-dreyfus-is-being-erased-all-over-again

QuoteIn London to promote a book, I received an invitation to a secret screening of An Officer and a Spy, Roman Polanski's new film about the Dreyfus affair. I boarded public transportation to a clandestine destination, somewhere in England, to view what recalled for me the samizdat literature once produced in Communist eastern Europe. I looked over my shoulder several times to see if anyone was watching me; if the possibility of exposure wasn't real, my anxiety certainly was. My emotional reflexes still echo the trip I took to Prague in 1983 to meet dissident writers during which I was followed. But why all the cloak-and-dagger dramatics now? Why can't I reveal where I went?

An Officer and a Spy is untouchable in the Anglo-Saxon world. For now it seems quite likely that the movie will not be shown in the United Kingdom, either in movie theatres or on television. Nor will it illuminate screens in the United States. Polanski, in the parlance of Twitter culture, has been 'cancelled' because of his confessed sex crime against a 13-year-old American girl in 1977. More recently, a French photographer has accused the Polish-Jewish director of raping her in 1975, a charge Polanski denies. So dangerous is the potential backlash of collaborating with Polanski that no British or American distributor will risk showing the movie, which opened to great acclaim and box-office success in France, though some protests have occurred there too. No one, including my hosts, wants to be stoned on Twitter or picketed in their place of business.

The rest of the article is pro-jewish jabber, but what is good to read is that a movie about a jew, made by a jew, is actually being banned.   <lol>