Novel
- Completely Different Title: The book has been published in France as D. (named after the letter that gets Dreyfus falsely accused).
Film
Trivia Tropes:
- Banned in China: The film was briefly removed from screening in six theaters of the French department of Seine-Saint-Denis in the vicinity of Paris following protests in light of a new sex crime allegation scandal against Polanski. Those six theaters ended up screening it again following a new decision by local administrations.
- Completely Different Title: The film has been released in France as J'accuse, named after the famous headline of Émile Zola's article in the newspaper L'Aurore, which publicly defended the innocence of Dreyfus and helped trigger the revision trials. This happened despite the character of Zola himself not having much screen presence in the film.
- Creator Couple: Once again, Emmanuelle Seigner appears in a film directed by her husband, Roman Polanski.
- Fake Nationality:
- The Swiss Vincent Perez as French lawyer Louis Leblois.
- Vincent Grass is from Belgium and plays the French General Billot.
- Jews Playing Nazis: The antisemitic graphology expert Alphonse Bertillon is played by Mathieu Amalric, who has Jewish ancestry.
- No Export for You: The #MeToo movement, and Polanski's old rape conviction, has resulted in no American distributors picking up the film.
- Saved from Development Hell: Polanski's attempt to make a film about the Dreyfus Affair dates all the way back to 2014, but the project has been delayed on account of his legal situation. He eventually pulled it off and the film came out in 2019.
Assorted Trivia:
- The film was one of the favorites in competition at the 2019 Venice Film Festival but ended up second place (Silver Lion) behind Joker, which got the Golden Lion.
