- Apr 23, 1978
- 90 min
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Full-HD
Danton's Death (1978)
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'.
Country
United Kingdom
Companies
BBC
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
