Marat/Sade

Marat/Sade

116 mins | Drama, History, Music | Feb. 22, 1967

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.

Marat/Sade

116 mins | Drama, History, Music | Feb. 22, 1967

Marat/Sade
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.
IMDb rating 7.5
Producers National Film Finance Corporation (NFFC)
Original title Marat/Sade
Directors Josephine Knowles, Ariel Levy, Peter Brook, Anthony Waye
Writers Peter Weiss, Adrian Mitchell

Cast

Patrick Magee

as Marquis de Sade

Ian Richardson

as Jean-Paul Marat

Michael Williams

as Herald

Clifford Rose

as Monsieur Coulmier

Glenda Jackson

as Charlotte Corday

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

Jeanette Landis

as Rossignol

Robert Langdon Lloyd

as Jacques Roux (as Robert Lloyd)

John Steiner

as Monsieur Dupere

James Mellor

as Schoolmaster

Henry Woolf

as Father

John Harwood

as Voltaire

Leon Lissek

as Lavoisier

Susan Williamson

as Simone Evrard

Carol Raymont

as Patient

Mary Allen

as Patient

Brenda Kempner

as Madame Coulmier

Mark Jones

as Mother

Maroussia Frank

as Patient

Tamara Fuerst

as Patient

Sheila Grant

as Patient

Lynn Pinkney

as Patient

Ian Hogg

as Military Representative

Ruth Baker

as Mademoiselle Coulmier

Michael Farnsworth

as Patient

Guy Gordon

as Patient

Michael Percival

as Patient

Tim Hardy

as Guard (as Timothy Hardy)

Stanford Trowell

as Guard