The Ashes (film)
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Danton. The two poles of the French Revolution were the passionate idealism of the republic and the utter finality of the guillotine. “Danton” finds itself comfortable at those two extremes and leaves the parts in the middle — the facts, the issues, the minor personalities — to the historians.
Set in the 1794, the second year of the French republic formed after the execution of Louis XVI, this film portrays the power struggle between the revolutionary leaders Danton (Gerard Depardieu, at his finest) and Robespierre (a commanding performance by the Polish actor Wojciech Pszoniak).
This French film from a Polish director explores a famous friendship soured by politics and corruption. Georges Danton (Gérard Depardieu) and Maximilien Robespierre (Wojciech Pszoniak) fought ...
- (13)
- Andrzej Wajda
- PG
- Gérard Depardieu
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 85% of 13 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.8/10. [ 7 ] The film had been sponsored by France's first socialist government for decades, in anticipation of the bicentenary of the Revolution in 1989.
Danton: Directed by Andrzej Wajda. With Gérard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Anne Alvaro, Roland Blanche. In 1793, as the Terror begins in France, Georges Danton, a champion-of-the-people, returns to clash against Maximilien Robespierre and his extremist party.
- (7.8K)
- Biography, Drama, History
- Andrzej Wajda
- 1983-01-12
Danton Reviews. Far from inaccuracies, it is a historical film in which Wajda illustrates, with superb aesthetics, the injustice and the clashes of power that devoured the French Revolution...
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Gérard Depardieu and Wojciech Pszoniak star in Andrzej Wajda’s powerful, intimate depiction of the ideological clash between the earthy, man-of-the-people Georges Danton and icy Jacobin extremist Maximilien Robespierre, both key figures of the French Revolution.
