Complete title: The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat ... Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade
Cast: Ian Richardson as Jean-Paul Marat Patrick Magee as Marquis de Sade Glenda Jackson as Charlotte Corday Susan Williamson as Marat's mistress Clifford Rose as Asylum director
production: Royal Shakespeare Company
Directed by: Peter Brook
Based on the play by: Peter Weiss
The Marquis de Sade is locked in the Charenton mental hospital and decides to put on a play. His overseers agree as long as he follows certain conditions. He writes and directs the other mental patients in a play based on the life of the Jean-Paul Marat. As the play progresses, the inmates become more and more possessed by the violence of the play and become extremely difficult to control. Finally, all chaos breaks loose.
Awards: Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists 1969
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