Release Date
23 Apr, 1978
Runtime
01:30: (HH:MM)
Synopsis
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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Actors
Ian Richardson
Norman Rodway
John Woodnutt
Zoë Wanamaker
Roger Sloman
Kate Fahy
Anthony Higgins
Shane Briant
Don Henderson
Michael Pennington
James Aubrey
Michael Bilton
Michael Cronin
Crew
Alan Clarke
Georg Büchner