Synopsis
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 extemist 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.
Cast
| Georges Danton | Gérard Depardieu |
| Maximilien Robespierre | Wojciech Pszoniak |
| Éléonore Duplay | Anne Alvaro |
| Lacroix | Roland Blanche |
| Camille Desmoulins | Patrice Chereau |
| Léonard Bourdon | Andrzej Seweryn |
| Lucille Desmoulins | Angela Winkler |
| Héron | Alain Macé |
| Saint-Just | Boguslaw Linda |
| Fabre d’Eglantine | Lucien Melki |
Credits
| Director | Andrzej Wajda |
| Screenplay | Jean-Claude Carrière, Agnieszka Holland, Andrzej Wajda, Jacek Gasiorowski and Boleslaw Michalek |
| Based on the play by | Stanislawa Przybyszewska |
| Music | Jean Prodromides |
| Cinematography | Igor Luther |
| Editing | Halina Prugar-Ketling |
| Production Design | Allan Starski |
Disc Features
SPECIAL EDITION DOUBLE-DISC SET:
- New high-definition digital transfer
- Video interviews with director Andrzej Wajda, screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière, and Polish film critic Jerzy Plazewski
- Wajda’s “Danton,” a 42-minute behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of the film
- Original theatrical trailer
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- PLUS: A new essay by film scholar Leonard Quart
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