Directed by Andrzej Wajda; 136 minutes; France/1983

• Detroit Film Theatre

Gérard Depardieu and Wojciech Pszoniak star in Andrzej Wajda’s powerful, intimate depiction of the ideological clash between the earthy, man-of-the-people Georges Danton and icy Jacobin extremist Maximilien Robespierre, both key figures of the French Revolution. By drawing parallels to Polish “solidarity,” a movement that was being quashed by the government as the film went into production, Wajda ingeniously and energetically transported history into the present. Meticulous and fiery, with a pulsing, speed-of-light narrative, Danton has been hailed as one of the greatest films ever made about The Terror. 1983 César Award for Best Director, Andrzej Wajda. In French with English subtitles.

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