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'.
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Ian Richardson
Robespierre
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Norman Rodway
Danton
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John Woodnutt
Fouquier-Tinville
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Zoë Wanamaker
Lucille
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Roger Sloman
Barère
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Kate Fahy
Julie
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Anthony Higgins
Camille
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Shane Briant
Hérault-Séchelles
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Don Henderson
Mercier
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Michael Pennington
Saint-Just
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James Aubrey
Lacroix
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Jonathan Adams
Collot d'Herbois
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Alan Clarke Director · Stuart Griffiths Writer Georg Büchner Author
First release April 23, 1978 · Produced in United Kingdom
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BBC
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United Kingdom
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United Kingdom · April 23, 1978
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No release date listed for United States.
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