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Danton's Death

04/23/1978

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1hr 30min

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Drama

,History

,TV Movie

STORY

Danton's Death is arguably the most dramatic and penetrating study of revolution ever written. Georg Büchner concentrates on that moment in 1794 when the Reign of Terror, already well established, spills over into a total blood-bath. The play, adapted by director Alan Clarke and Stuart Griffiths, both highly imaginative and closely documentary, shows how the great hero of the early phase of the Revolution, Danton, sickened by the excesses of the guillotine, which he helped to create, wants to call a halt. But Robespierre and Saint-Just, leaders of the Jacobins, with a ferocious puritanical zeal, spur on 'the wild horses of the Revolution'.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Ian Richardson
  • Norman Rodway
  • John Woodnutt
  • Zoë Wanamaker
  • Roger Sloman

    Director

  • Alan Clarke

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • BBC

    Production Countries

  • United Kingdom

LANGUAGES

  • English

Cast

Ian Richardson

Robespierre

Norman Rodway

Danton

John Woodnutt

Fouquier-Tinville

Zoë Wanamaker

Lucille

Roger Sloman

Barère

Kate Fahy

Julie

Anthony Higgins

Camille

Shane Briant

Hérault-Séchelles

Don Henderson

Mercier

Michael Pennington

Saint-Just

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