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Danton
Danton
drama, biography, historycal
1982
France, Poland
Andrzej Vaida
139 min.
Gerard Depardieu, Wojciech Pshonyak, Ann Alvaro
November 1793. Lawyer Georges Danton returns from his rustic recluse to Paris to stop the bloody terror, begun by his friend and ally Robespierre. For the first time in history, the “inexorable logic of the revolution” comes into force, an increasing violence machine is launched, and the guillotine works for wear. Firmness and firmness again. To hell with pity - a relic of the damned past. There is no place for the weak in the bright future. The humanist Danton is destined to fold his head on the block, but his death is a formidable warning to those who do not understand that the revolution devours their children ...
