CRITERION COLLECTION: DANTON

Details

• Release Year: 1983
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: Gerard 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 with the Polish Solidarity movement, which 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: Gérard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Anne Alvaro, Roland Blanche, Patrice Chéreau, Emmanuelle Debever, Krzysztof Globisz, Ronald Guttman, Gérard Hardy, Tadeusz Huk, Stéphane Jobert, Marian Kociniak, Marek Kondrat, Boguslaw Linda, Alain Macé, Bernard Maître, Lucien Melki, Serge Merlin, Erwin Nowiaszek, Leonard Pietraszak, Roger Planchon, Angel Sedgwick, Andrzej Seweryn, Franciszek Starowieyski, Jerzy Trela, Jacques Villeret, Angela Winkler, Jean-Loup Wolff, Czeslaw Wollejko, Wladimir Yordanoff, Malgorzata Zajaczkowska, Szymon Zaleski, Artus de Penguern, Andrzej Wajda, Jean-Claude Carrière, Stanislawa Przybyszewska
• Director: Andrzej Wajda
• Runtime: 2:17
• Company: Criterion
• Media Format: Movie