MARAT/SADE (1967)

Marat/Sade
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Marat/Sade
By Peter Weiss
Music, Drama, History
February 22, 1967
English
1h 56m
England
National Film Finance Corporation (NFFC)

In Charenton Asylum, the Marquis de Sade directs a play about Jean Paul Marat's death, using the patients as actors. Based on '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', a 1963 play by Peter Weiss.

Cast & Characters

Patrick Magee

Marquis de Sade

Ian Richardson

Jean-Paul Marat

Clifford Rose

Monsieur Coulmier

Glenda Jackson

Charlotte Corday

John Hussey

Newly Rich Lady

Robert Langdon Lloyd

Jacques Roux (as Robert Lloyd)

John Steiner

Monsieur Dupere

James Mellor

Schoolmaster

John Harwood

Voltaire

Leon Lissek

Lavoisier

Susan Williamson

Simone Evrard

Mary Allen

Patient

Brenda Kempner

Madame Coulmier

Crew

Peter Brook

Director

Adrian Mitchell

Screenplay

Richard Peaslee

Original Music Composer

David Watkin

Director of Photography