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Mood:
- Captivating
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Plot:
- Fighting the SystemIntrigueLeadershipPoliticsIdealismRebelliousnessAnti SemitismHolocaust more...
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Genres:
- DramaPeriodForeignHistoricalWar
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Place:
- EuropeFranceParisPoland
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Style:
- EpicTalky
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Based on:
- Based on PlayBiographyBased on True Story
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealisticSlow
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Danton, 1983
French, Polish
France, Poland, West Germany
Profile of Danton
The mood of Danton is captivating. The plot centers around anti semitism, a revolution, and the Holocaust. It is a drama, foreign, and period movie. Stylistically, Danton is epic and is talky. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The pacing is slow. Danton is set in Poland and Paris. It is adapted from a play, drawn from a biography, and originally a true story.
Summary of Danton
A dramatic metaphor for the revolutionary events unfolding in his native Poland, Andrzej Wajda's adaptation of Stanislawa Przybyszewska's play is a brilliant account of the struggle of the two leaders of the French Revolution to control the country's future. Gérard Depardieu stars as Danton, who has retired to his country estate after having been supplanted as head of the Committee for Public Safety by Robespierre (Wojciech Psoniak). But with the commencement of the Reign of Terror, Danton returns to Paris in November 1793 in the hope that he can stem the tide of bloodshed unleashed by his former ally. Confident that his rhetorical skills and the high esteem in which he is held by the French people will cause them to rise up against the brutal ruling regime, Danton is stunned to find them pauperized by the recent war with Austria and cowed by the ubiquity of Robespierre's minions. Behind closed doors, Danton's attempts to act as a mediator between warring factions are met with cold indifference by the rigidly obsessive Robespierre. Anchored by exceptional performances by Depardieu and Psoniak and featuring exceptional photography and art direction, Wajda's coruscating epic is a masterpiece of reimagined history.
Details
| Language: | French, Polish |
| Country: | France, Poland, West Germany |
| Release date: | 28 September 1983 |
| Runtime: | 136 min |
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