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Danton ( French pronunciation: [dɑ̃tɔ̃]) is a 1983 French-language film depicting the last weeks of Georges Danton, one of the leaders of the French Revolution. It is an adaptation of the 1929 play The Danton Case by Stanisława Przybyszewska . The film stars Gérard Depardieu in the title role, with Wojciech Pszoniak as Maximilien ...
Jan 12, 1983 · 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 ...
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- Biography, Drama, History
- Andrzej Wajda
- 1983-01-12
May 17, 2017 · Action opens in November of 1793, with Danton returning to Paris from his country retreat upon learning that the Committee for Public Safety, under Robespier...
- 136 min
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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. This movie may not be an accurate record of the ...
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. By drawing parallels to Polish “solidarity,” a movement that was being quashed by the government as the film went into ...
- Georges Danton
Danton, well known as a spokesman of the people, had been living in relative solitude in the French countryside, but he returned to Paris to challenge Robespierre's violent rule and call for the people to demand their rights. Robespierre, however, could not accept such a challenge, even from a friend and colleague, and he blocked out a plan for ...
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