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Marat/Sade (1967)

Marat/Sade (1967)

Drama Music History

By Peter Weiss

Release Date: 1967, February 22
Directors: Peter Brook
Countries: United Kingdom
Production: National Film Finance Corporation (NFFC), National Film Finance Corporation (NFFC)
Cast: James Mellor, Freddie Jones, Clifford Rose, William Morgan Sheppard, Patrick Magee, Mark Jones, John Steiner, Mary Allen, Ian Richardson, Michael Percival, Brenda Kempner, Leon Lissek

Overview:

In Charenton Asylum, the Marquis de Sade directs a play about Jean Paul Marat's death, using the patients as actors. Based on 'The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade', a 1963 play by Peter Weiss.