Title | : | Danton |
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Release | : | 1983 |
Rating | : | 7.5 |
Language | : | French |
Runtime | : | 136 |
Genre | : | Biography,Drama,History |
Action opens in November of 1793, with Danton returning to Paris from his country retreat upon learning that the Committee for Public Safety, under Robespierre's incitement, has begun a series of massive executions, The Terror. Confident in the people's support, Danton clashes with his former ally, but calculating Robespierre soon rounds up Danton and his followers, tries them before a revolutionary tribunal and dipatches them to the guillotine. —Polish Cinema Database
Jean-Claude Carrière, Stanislawa Przybyszewska, Andrzej Wajda