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Gérard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Patrice Chéreau, Angela Winkler, Boguslaw Linda ... see more see more... , Roland Blanche (II) , Anne Alvaro , Roger Planchon , Serge Merlin , Lucien Melki , Andrzej Seweryn , Franciszek Starowieyski , Emmanuelle Debever , Jerzy Trela , Tadeusz Huk , Jacques Villeret , Ronald Guttman , Marian Kociniak , Marek Kondrat , Alain Macé , Jean-Loup Wolff , Vladimir Yordanoff , Krzysztof Globisz , Stéphane Jobert , Leonard Pietraszak , Angel Sedgwick , Malgorzata Zajaczkowska , Czeslaw Wollejko , Gerard Hardy

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 mass... read more read more...ive executions, The Terror. Confident in the peoples' 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.

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PG, 2 hr. 16 min.

Directed by: Andrzej Wajda

Release Date: January 1, 1983

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DVD Release Date: March 31, 2009

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Flixster Reviews (107)

  • flixsterman
    February 29, 2012
    flixsterman
    An enlightening, unflattering exercise in French history highlighted by betrayal, corruption and Depardieu.
  • hawkledge
    April 10, 2009
    hawkledge
    Gérard Depardieu's finest performance, Igor Luther's cinematography giving the settings an authentic feel, as do Yvonne Sassinot de Nesle's costume designs.
  • chiphall72
    July 13, 2007
    chiphall72
    Generally speaking, Depardieu is much better in French than in English. He's fine here in a showy role but the film is a little slow and a little long.

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Mark Bourne
May 20, 2009
Mark Bourne, Film.com

...uncompromising and impassioned. [Depardieu's] throat-scraping, rage-against-the-machine speech in court -- "the Revolution is devouring its children!" -- makes Jimmy Stewart's in Mr. Smith Goes to ... Full Review

Emanuel Levy
August 14, 2011
Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

Wajda's intelligent and complex drama could be appreciated as a period piece about the french Revolution as well as a parable of modern politics in Poland and elsewhere. Full Review

Christopher Long
July 29, 2009
Christopher Long, Movie Metropolis

The film lacks the vitality and excitement of Wajdas earlier work. Full Review

Chris Cabin
April 17, 2009
Chris Cabin, Filmcritic.com

In its own way, Danton makes a hell of an argument for dictatorships and fascism. At least they're up front about it. Full Review

James Kendrick
April 14, 2009
James Kendrick, Q Network Film Desk

does not give us easy grounding, but instead constantly challenges us to see each character within the context of both his convictions and the necessities of his political position Full Review

Joseph Jon Lanthier
March 29, 2009
Joseph Jon Lanthier, Slant Magazine

Danton's true achievement is as elaborate period pageantry. Full Review

Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
July 23, 2003
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice

A richly suggestive French film about power, liberty, and bureacracy Full Review

February 23, 2012
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Vincent Canby
May 20, 2003
Vincent Canby, New York Times

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Dave Kehr
January 1, 2000
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader

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