ID #:
207D
Film Type:
DVD
Release Date:
1983
Color or BW:
Color
Description:
Gerard Depardieu and Wojciech Pszoniak star in Andrzej Wajda's powerful, intimate depicition of the ideological clash between the earthy man of the people Georges Danton and the icy Jacobin extremist Maximilien Robespierre, both key figures of the French Revolution. By drawing parallels with the Polish Solidarity movement, whch was being quashed by the government as the film went into production. Wajda dragshistory into the present. Meticulous and fiery. Danton has been hailed as one of the greatest films ever made about the Terror.
Keywords:
earthy man, French Revolution, Georges Danton, ideological clash, Jacobin extremeist Maximilien Robespierre, Polish Solidarity movement, Terror