| Release Date: | Sep 1983 |
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| Genres: | Biography / Drama / History |
| Awards: | Won BAFTA Film Award. Another 6 wins & 4 nominations |
| Cast: | Gérard Depardieu (Danton), Wojciech Pszoniak (Robespierre), Anne Alvaro (Eleonore), Roland Blanche (Lacroix), Patrice Chéreau (Camille Desmoulins), Emmanuelle Debever (Louison Danton), Krzysztof Globisz (Amar), Ronald Guttman (Herman), Gérard Hardy (Tallien), Tadeusz Huk (Couthon), Stéphane Jobert (Panis), Marian Kociniak (Lindet), Marek Kondrat (Barere de Vieuzac), Boguslaw Linda (Saint Just), Alain Macé (Héron (as Alain Mace)), Bernard Maître (Legendre), Lucien Melki (Fabre d'Eglantine), Serge Merlin (Philippeaux), Erwin Nowiaszek (Collot d'Herbois), Leonard Pietraszak (Carnot), Roger Planchon (Fouquier-Tinville), Angel Sedgwick (Frere Eleonore), Andrzej Seweryn (Bourdon), Franciszek Starowieyski (David), Jerzy Trela (Billaud-Varenne), Jacques Villeret (Westermann), Angela Winkler (Lucile Desmoulins), Jean-Loup Wolff (Herault de Seychelles), Czeslaw Wollejko (Vadier), Wladimir Yordanoff (Chef des gardes), Malgorzata Zajaczkowska (Servante Duplay), Szymon Zaleski (Lebas), Artus de Penguern ((uncredited)) |
Action opens in November of 1793, with Danton returning to Paris from his country retreat upon learning that the Committee for Public Safety, under Robespierre's incitement, has begun a series of massive executions, The Terror. Confident in the peoples' support, Danton clashes with his former ally, but calculating Robespierre soon rounds up Danton and his followers, tries them before a revolutionary tribunal and dipatches them to the guillotine.
