ID #:
226D
Film Type:
DVD
Release Date:
2009
Color or BW:
Color
Description:
Gerard Depardieu and Wojciech Pszoniak star in Andrzej Wajda's powerful, intimate depiciton 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 movemnt, which was being quashed by the government as the film went into production, Wajada drags history into the present. Meticulous and fiery, Danton hs been hailed as one of the greatest films ever made about the Terror.
Keywords:
earthy man, extremist Maximilien Robespierre, French Revolultion, Georges Danton, history into the present, icy Jacobin, Meticulous and fiery, Polish Soliarity movement, teror.