Marat/Sade

United Kingdom

1967

116 Min

Color

1.85:1

English

Currently 4.0/5 Stars.
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SCR Adrian Mitchell, Geoffrey Skelton, Peter Weiss

CAST Patrick Magee, Ian Richardson, Michael Williams, Clifford Rose, Glenda Jackson, Freddie Jones, Hugh Sullivan, John Hussey, William Morgan Sheppard, Jonathan Burn, Jeanette Landis, Robert Langdon Lloyd, John Steiner, James Mellor, Susan Williamson

MUSIC Richard Peaslee, Patrick Gowers

SOUND Bob Allen, Robin Clegg, Hugh Strain

Locarno (Peter Brook ): Special Mention

Synopsis

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. —IMDb

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MATT

30Aug12

A claustrophobic portraiture of political power, creation, and destruction. "Man is a destroyer"

Daniel S.

26Jul12

Stage plays are not my cup of tea but there is something here that aroused my curiosity for a while. So see it in order not to die completely stupid. And forget it. If you can. I can.