
About
Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 Robespierre was France's ruler, determined to wipe out opposition with a series of mass executions that became known as the Reign of Terror. Danton, well known as a spokesman of the people, had been living in relative solitude in the French countryside, but he returned to Paris to challenge Robespierre's violent rule and call for the people to demand their rights. Robespierre, however, could not accept such a challenge, even from a friend and colleague, and he blocked out a plan for the capture and execution of Danton and his allies.
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Georges Danton (Gérard Depardieu) returns from his post French revolutionary rural existence to a Paris where the excesses and indifferences of the monarchy have now been replaced by those of the comm... read more
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Cast

Gérard Depardieu
Georges Danton

Wojciech Pszoniak
Maximilien Robespierre

Patrice Chéreau
Camille Desmoulins

Angela Winkler
Lucile Desmoulins

Roland Blanche
Lacroix of Eure-et-Loir
Alain Macé
François Héron

Jacques Villeret
François-Joseph Westermann

Anne Alvaro
Eléonore Duplay

Bogusław Linda
Antoine de Saint-Just

Emmanuelle Debever
Louison Danton

Krzysztof Globisz
André Amar

Ronald Guttman
Martial Herman

Marian Kociniak
Robert Lindet

Tadeusz Huk
Georges Couthon

Stéphane Jobert
Étienne-Jean Panis

Marek Kondrat
Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac

Serge Merlin
Pierre Philippeaux
Erwin Nowiaszak
Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois

Leonard Pietraszak
Lazare Carnot

Roger Planchon
Antoine Fouquier-Tinville

Andrzej Seweryn
François-Louis Bourdon

Jerzy Trela
Jacques-Nicolas Billaud-Varenne

Czesław Wołłejko
Marc-Guillaume-Alexis Vadier

Wladimir Yordanoff
Chief of guards

Małgorzata Zajączkowska
Duplay's servant
Franciszek Starowieyski
Jacques-Louis David
Lucien Melki
Fabre d'Églantine
Jean-Loup Wolff
Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles
Gérard Hardy
Jean-Lambert Tallien
Bernard Maître
Louis Legendre
Szymon Zaleski
Philippe-François-Joseph Le Bas

Eugeniusz Priwieziencew
Danton's Supporter (uncredited)
Director

Andrzej Wajda
Director
Krystyna Grochowicz
Assistant Director
Creator

Agnieszka Holland
Screenplay

Jean-Claude Carrière
Screenplay
Stanisława Przybyszewska
Theatre Play

Andrzej Wajda
Screenplay
Jacek Gąsiorowski
Screenplay

Bolesław Michałek
Screenplay