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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. By drawing parallels to Polish “solidarity,” a movement that was being quashed by the government as the film went into production, Wajda drags history into the present. Meticulous and fiery, Danton has been hailed as one of the greatest films ever made about the Terror.
Original Release
01/12/1982
US Release
01/12/1983
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Gerard Depardieu | Danton / Georges Danton |
Wojciech Pszoniak | Robespierre / Maximilien Robespierre |
Anne Alvaro | Éléonore Duplay / Eléonore |
Roland Blanche | Lacroix |
Patrice Chereau | Camille Desmoulins |
Emmanuelle Debever | Louison Danton |
Krzysztof Globisz | Amar |
Ronald Guttman | Herman |
Gérard Hardy | Tallien |
Tadeusz Huk | Couthon |
Directors
Writers
Andrzej Wajda, Stanisława Przybyszewska, Agnieszka Holland, Bolesław Michałek, Jacek Gasiorowski, Jean-Claude Carriere
Cast
Name | Character |
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Gerard Depardieu | Danton / Georges Danton |
Wojciech Pszoniak | Robespierre / Maximilien Robespierre |
Anne Alvaro | Éléonore Duplay / Eléonore |
Roland Blanche | Lacroix |
Patrice Chereau | 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 | Barère de Vieuzac / Barere de Vieusac |
Boguslaw Linda | Saint Just / Saint-Just |
Alain Macé | Héron |
Bernard Maître | Legendre |
Lucien Melki | Fabre d'Eglantine |
Serge Merlin | Philippeaux |
Erwin Nowiaszek | Collot d'Herbois |
Leonard Pietraszak | Carnot / Nicolas Carnot Lazare |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Margaret Ménégoz | Producer |
Barbara Pec-Slesicka | Producer |
Renzo Rossellini | Producer |
Emmanuel Schlumberger | Producer |