Danton's Death is arguably the most dramatic and penetrating study of revolution ever written. Georg Büchner concentrates on that moment in 1794 when the Reign of Terror, already well established, spills over into a total blood-bath. The play, adapted by director Alan Clarke and Stuart Griffiths, both highly imaginative and closely documentary, shows how the great hero of the early phase of the Revolution, Danton, sickened by the excesses of the guillotine, which he helped to create, wants to call a halt. But Robespierre and Saint-Just, leaders of the Jacobins, with a ferocious puritanical zeal, spur on 'the wild horses of the Revolution'.
as Robespierre
as Danton
as Fouquier-Tinville
as Lucille
as Barère
as Julie
as Camille
as Hérault-Séchelles
as Mercier
as Saint-Just
as Lacroix
as Collot d'Herbois
as 2nd Gentleman
as 1st Gentleman
as Adelaide
as Billaud-Varennes
as Marion
as Marchioness
