Danton's Death

April. 23,1978      
Rating:
7
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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'.

Ian Richardson as  Robespierre
Norman Rodway as  Danton
John Woodnutt as  Fouquier-Tinville
Zoë Wanamaker as  Lucille
Roger Sloman as  Barère
Kate Fahy as  Julie
Anthony Higgins as  Camille
Shane Briant as  Hérault-Séchelles
Don Henderson as  Mercier
Michael Pennington as  Saint-Just