Revolution devours its children — and this 88-minute guillotine drop proves it.
Reconstruction of Danton's political career, from the moment he had just been admitted as a lawyer and became friends with Camille Desmoulins and Fabre d'Eglantine. Until his death sentence on the charges of Robespierre.
Acting
Grétillat's Danton — booming voice, doomed charisma.
Direction
Roubaud stages the Revolution like a claustrophobic nightmare.
Director
André Roubaud
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released months before Hitler's rise, its warning about revolutionary purges felt chillingly immediate to 1932 audiences.
Roubaud shot this in 12 days on borrowed sets from another French Revolution production — creative poverty breeds creative solutions.
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