Marat/Sade
1967
Action / Drama / History / Music

Marat/Sade
1967
Action / Drama / History / Music
Plot summary
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.
Director
Top cast
Glenda Jackson as Charlotte Corday
Patrick Magee as Marquis de Sade
John Steiner as Monsieur Dupere