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 (1967)

6.2/10 • 116 min • Music Drama History

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.

Cast

Patrick Magee

Marquis de Sade

Ian Richardson

Jean-Paul Marat

Michael Williams

Herald

Clifford Rose

Monsieur Coulmier

Glenda Jackson

Charlotte Corday

Freddie Jones

Cucurucu

John Hussey

Newly Rich Lady

William Morgan Sheppard

A Mad Animal

Jonathan Burn

Polpoch

Robert Langdon Lloyd

Jacques Roux (as Robert Lloyd)

John Steiner

Monsieur Dupere

Henry Woolf

Father

Leon Lissek

Lavoisier

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