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In an insane asylum, Marquis de Sade directs Jean Paul Marat's last days through a theater play. The actors are the patients.In an insane asylum, Marquis de Sade directs Jean Paul Marat's last days through a theater play. The actors are the patients.In an insane asylum, Marquis de Sade directs Jean Paul Marat's last days through a theater play. The actors are the patients.
- Awards
- 2 wins & 1 nomination
Robert Langdon Lloyd
- Jacques Roux
- (as Robert Lloyd)
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- TriviaCharenton, the asylum depicted in the film, was established in 1645 and still exists and is still in use, although it is now called the Esquirol Hospital (l'Hôpital Esquirol), named for Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol, a French psychiatrist who ran the hospital in the 19th Century.
- Quotes
Marquis de Sade: And what's the point of a revolution without general copulation?
- Crazy creditsThe opening credits - the play's title, stage credits and the actors appearing in the film - pop on the screen, one word at a time, until it is filled. The closing credits - the film's production staff - start off with a full screen of words, and they then pop off the screen, one word at a time, until it is completely empty...just as it was when the film began.
- Alternate versionsThe first VHS video release of the film, through Water Bearer Films, includes an expositional opening monologue over the opening titles on black.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Changing Stages (2000)
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Good film adaptation of a brilliant play
The play absolutely deserves every award it has received. It's a serious but blackly humorous -- or humorously black -- discussion of politics, philosophy, and just what constitutes sanity, with enough madness to hold our attention and enough roots in the real world that we can't easily dismiss the points it makes.
In the film there are few directorial choice that I might quibble with, and there is one (not very important) change I definitely disagree with... but overall it's a surprisingly good job of translating the first Broadway production to the screen.
(I have both the Caedmon complete recording of the Broadway production and a copy of the film, and I've played de Sade, so I'm a bit more aware of the details than most viewers would be. Alas, I can't read German so I can't compare any of these to the "real" original.) If you can find a good live production of Marat/Sade, see it. If you can't, or if you want to revisit it, the film isn't too far behind.
In the film there are few directorial choice that I might quibble with, and there is one (not very important) change I definitely disagree with... but overall it's a surprisingly good job of translating the first Broadway production to the screen.
(I have both the Caedmon complete recording of the Broadway production and a copy of the film, and I've played de Sade, so I'm a bit more aware of the details than most viewers would be. Alas, I can't read German so I can't compare any of these to the "real" original.) If you can find a good live production of Marat/Sade, see it. If you can't, or if you want to revisit it, the film isn't too far behind.
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- Die Verfolgung und Ermordung Jean-Paul Marats dargestellt durch die Schauspielgruppe des Hospizes zu Charenton unter der Anleitung des Herrn de Sade
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