Marat/Sade
1967, Film, 119 min, Drama, History, Music, English, United Kingdom, MoviePedia score 65
By Peter Weiss
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.
Directed by Peter Brook
Cast
- Patrick Magee as Marquis de Sade
- Clifford Rose as Monsieur Coulmier
- Glenda Jackson as Charlotte Corday
- Ian Richardson as Jean-Paul Marat
- Michael Williams as Herald
- Freddie Jones as Cucurucu
- Hugh Sullivan as Kokol
- John Hussey as Newly Rich Lady
- William Morgan Sheppard as A Mad Animal
- Jonathan Burn as Polpoch
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