A poignant historical film, that looked at past social issues to talk about present social issues. This is kind of what foreign filmmakers did to get around censorship in their own country, by picking a historical scenario of injustice to relay modern ones that otherwise would have been censored. The film is interesting for being about a Jewish soldier wrongly accused, notably the Dreyfuss affair, but you never hear the word Jew. You just know that's what they are talking about in the movie based on the context of the story and the times. The film in a way is talking about the rise of naziism and the difficulty in the American world to present this "issue" of Jews being oppressed in Europe. You see the difficulty in the time of actually tackling real issues as the war begins to approach.
I will say this film is visually uninteresting.