Danton

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Danton

PG,

1982,

2h 16m,

History/

Drama

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85%

13 Reviews

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82%

1,000+ Ratings

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13 Reviews

82%

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1,000+ Ratings

This French film from a Polish director explores a famous friendship soured by politics and corruption. Georges Danton and Maximilien Robespierre fought side by side during the French Revolution. But when Danton takes control of France and starts executing citizens in droves, Robespierre feels it his duty to challenge his one-time comrade. Robespierre goes to Paris to remove his old friend from power, but Danton will not go down without a fight.

Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

Jun 19, 2018

4/4

[Wajda] has made a great historical picture, and one with sweat and grime all over it.

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Mark Bourne

Film.com

May 20, 2009

...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 Washington look like a monk's benediction.

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Joseph Jon Lanthier

Slant Magazine

Mar 29, 2009

3/4

Danton's true achievement is as elaborate period pageantry.

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Yasser Medina

Cinefilia

Oct 7, 2023

8/10

Far from inaccuracies, it is a historical film in which Wajda illustrates, with superb aesthetics, the injustice and the clashes of power that devoured the French Revolution like Saturn did with his children. [Full review in Spanish]

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Octavi Marti

El Pais (Spain)

Sep 24, 2019

The lack of clarity of the ideological debate weighs heavily on the film. [Full Review in Spanish]

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Robert Darnton

The New York Review of Books

Jun 15, 2018

It adds up to an overwhelming indictment of government oppression.

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Kylo M

May 23, 2018

A recreation of the time period of French growing pains with freedom and independence. Good acting, but some very poignant themes about legitimacy of government, power and freedoms. It was unlike any other film I have seen in that regard.

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Abraham S

May 5, 2017

This interesting historical drama looks absolutely stunning (almost like a Delacroix painting) but is also overlong and feels too didactic (almost like a filmed History book, to be honest) despite two very intense performances by Gérard Depardieu and Wojciech Pszoniak.

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Andrzej Wajda

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Gérard Depardieu

Danton

Wojciech Pszoniak

Robespierre

Patrice Chéreau

Camille Desmoulins

Anne Alvaro

Éléonore Duplay

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Synopsis

This French film from a Polish director explores a famous friendship soured by politics and corruption. Georges Danton and Maximilien Robespierre fought side by side during the French Revolution. But when Danton takes control of France and starts executing citizens in droves, Robespierre feels it his duty to challenge his one-time comrade. Robespierre goes to Paris to remove his old friend from power, but Danton will not go down without a fight.

Director: Andrzej Wajda
Production Co: Gaumont, TF1 Films Production
Rating: PG
Genre: History, Drama
Original Language: French (France)
Release Date (DVD): Mar 31, 2009
Runtime: 2h 16m

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