Acting
Ana Padrão's transformation from blank slate to firebrand.
Direction
McMullen's playful anachronisms—Marx on a motorbike, anyone?
Costume
Deliberately theatrical Commune reds vs bourgeois drab.
Director
Ken McMullen
Ana Padrão
Séverine
Roshan Seth
Lord Grafton
John Lynch
O'Brien
Timothy Spall
Ramborde
Jack Klaff
Cluseret
Maria de Medeiros
Maria
Dominique Pinon
Napoléon III
Med Hondo
Karl Marx
Figueira Cid
Theatre Company Member
Marcello Urgeghe
Trial Messenger
Antonio Caldeira Pires
Prosecutor
Carlos César
Spirit of the Theatre
Alexandre de Sousa
General Gallifet
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ken McMullen shot this in just 18 days on a shoestring budget, using friends' apartments as Parisian locations.
Made during Thatcher's Britain, the film slyly connects 1871's crushed workers' uprising to 1980s union-busting—hence the deliberate modern echoes.
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