MARAT / SADE (WIDESCREEN)

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• Release Year: 1967
• Genre: Drama, Foreign
• Plot: Directed by Peter Brook and based on the Tony Award-winning play by Peter Weiss, this spellbinding tale of 'slashing power and disturbance (The Film Daily) bristles with the riveting energy and excellent (Variety) performances by the Royal Shakespeare Theatre Company, including Ian Richardson and Patrick Magee. Brimming with raving lunatics, crackling whips, catatonic seizures - and even musical interludes - Marat/Sade is an exciting, overwhelming [and] stunning tour de force (Boxoffice)!; When notorious social critic - and inmate of Charenton's asylum for the insane - the Marquis de Sade (Magee), stages a play about the murder of the French Revolution's Jean-Paul Marat, the production takes on an alarming life of its own. And as tempers flare, arguments rage and chaos engulfs both the sane and the mad, the inmates finally turn against their keepers - in a brilliant, breathtaking and completely bizarre conclusion… that will leave you raving for more!
• Cast: Patrick Magee, Ian Richardson, Michael Williams, Clifford Rose, Glenda Jackson, Freddie Jones, Hugh Sullivan, John Hussey, William Morgan Sheppard, Jonathan Burn, Jeanette Landis, Robert Langdon Lloyd, John Steiner, James Mellor, Henry Woolf, John Harwood, Leon Lissek, Susan Williamson, Carol Raymont, Mary Allen, Brenda Kempner, Mark Jones, Maroussia Frank, Tamara Fuerst, Sheila Grant, Lynn Pinkney, Ian Hogg, Ruth Baker, Michael Farnsworth, Guy Gordon, Michael Percival, Heather Canning, Jennifer Tudor, Tim Hardy, Stanford Trowell, Peter Brook, Peter Weiß, Geoffrey Skelton, Adrian Mitchell, David Watkin, Richard Peaslee
• Director: Peter Brook
• Runtime: 2:00
• Company: MGM Home Entertainment, United Artists
• Media Format: Movie