The year 1794, the French Revolution. Terror is raging in France. At the meeting of the Committee of Public Safety Danton and his friends are accused of counter-revolutionary activities. At the same time the Dantonist journal Vieux Cordelier gets confiscated. Soon Danton receives a secret warning that the government is going to arrest him. On the initiative of Robespierre the two leaders meet.
Danton
1982
14 years
136 min.
Fiction
Poland, France
Colorido
Andrzej Wajda
Jean-Claude Carrière
Igor Luther
Halina Prugar-Ketling
Gerard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Anne Alvaro, Roland Blanche, Patrice Chereau
Margaret Ménégoz
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Jean Prodromides
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