Danton

The Resource Danton
Label
Danton
Statement of responsibility
Janus Films ; une coproduction Franco Polonaise, Gaumont-TF1 Films production, S.F.P.C.-T.M ; avec la participation du Ministere de la Culture, Paris, et Films Polski presentent ; un film d'Andrzej Wajda ; scénario, Jean-Claude Carriere ; avec la collaboration de Andrzej Wajda Agnieszka Holland, Bolesław Michałek, Jacek Gasiorowski ; une production Margaret Menegoz, Les Films du Losange ; avec la collaboration de Groupe de Production X-Varsovie, Barbara Pec-S̀lesicka
Title variation
Danton a film by Andrzej Wajda
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Language
  • fre
  • eng
  • eng
  • fre
  • fre
Summary
"Depiction of the ideological clash between the earthy man of the people Georges Danton and the icy Jacobin extremist Maximilien Robespierre, both key figures of the French revolution. By drawing parallels with the Polish Solidarity movement, which was being quashed by the government as the film went into production, [director Andrzej] Wajda drags history into the present"--Container
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Awards note
Winner, Prix Louis Delluc: Andrzej Wajda, 1982; Meilleur réalisateur (Best Director): Andrzej Wajda--César Awards, 1983; Best Foreign Language Film: Margaret Ménégoz, Barbara Pec-Slesicka, Andrzej Wajda--BAFTA Film Awards, 1984
Cataloging source
TEFMT
Characteristic
videorecording
Credits note
Director of photography, Igor Luther ; music, Jean Prodromidès ; editing, Halina Prugar-Ketling
Language note
In French (Dolby digital mono) with optional subtitles in English
PerformerNote
Gérard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Anne Alvaro, Roland Blanche, Patrice Chéreau, Emmanuelle Debever, Krzysztof Globisz, Ronald Guttman, Gérard Hardy, Tadeusz Huk, Stéphane Jobert, Marian Kociniak, Marek Kondrat, Bogusław Linda, Alain Macé, Bernard Maître, Lucien Melki, Serge Merlin, Erwin Nowiaszak, Leonard Pietraszak, Roger Planchon, Angel Sedgwick, Andrzej Seweryn, Franciszek Starowieyski, Jerzy Trela, Jacques Villeret, Angela Winkler, Jean-Loup Wolff, Czesław Wołłejko, Wladimir Yordanoff, Małgorzata Zajączkowska, Szymon Zaleski
Runtime
136
Series statement
The Criterion collection
Series volume
464
Target audience
general
Technique
live action
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