Marat/Sade (1967) ( Marat / Sade ) ( Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat )

Marat/Sade (1967) (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Marat / Sade
Alternate Title: Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Mono )
Italian ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Italy ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
115 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Trailer(s)
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1967 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Peter Brook

Written By:
Adrian Mitchell
Geoffrey Skelton

Actors:
Patrick Magee ..... Marquis de Sade
Ian Richardson ..... Jean-Paul Marat
Michael Williams ..... Herald
Clifford Rose ..... Monsieur Coulmier
Glenda Jackson ..... Charlotte Corday
Freddie Jones ..... Cucurucu
Hugh Sullivan ..... Kokol
John Hussey ..... Newly Rich Lady
William Morgan Sheppard ..... A Mad Animal
Jonathan Burn ..... Polpoch
Jeanette Landis ..... Rossignol
Robert Langdon Lloyd ..... Jacques Roux
John Steiner ..... Monsieur Dupere
James Mellor ..... Schoolmaster
Henry Woolf ..... Father

Synopsis:

In his astonishing adaptation of Peter Weiss' 'The Persecution And Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of The Marquis De Sade', accomplished filmmaker Peter Brook spins the spellbinding tale of one man's extraordinary attempt to stage a play about the murder of the French Revolution's radical journalist and politician Jean-Paul Marat (Ian Richardson). The man in question is none other than the legendary Marquis De Sade (Patrick Magee), notorious aristocrat, social critic, playwright and inmate of Charenton asylum for the insane. His bold and colourful attempt to enrich his fellow inmates with cultural and artistic exposure to the polemical work leads to a theatre production of calamitous magnitude. In the tradition of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, outrageous in scope and mesmerising in detail, Marat/Sade also features Academy Award winner Glenda Jackson among other 'excellent' (Variety) performances from the highly respected Royal Shakespeare Theatre Company.

The Marquis de Sade is locked in the Charenton mental hospital and decides to put on a play. His overseers agree as long as he follows certain conditions. He writes and directs the other mental patients in a play based on the life of the Jean-Paul Marat. As the play progresses, the inmates become more and more possessed by the violence of the play and become extremely difficult to control. Finally, all chaos breaks loose.

In an insane Asylum, Marquis de Sade directs the Jean Paul Marat's last days through a theather play. The actors are the patients.

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