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The French Revolution is a french film of genre Drama directed by Robert Enrico released in USA on 2 october 1989 with Klaus Maria Brandauer
The French Revolution (1989)
La Révolution française
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Add to a movie listLa Révolution française is a two-part film, co-produced by France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom and Canada. The first part, titled La Révolution française: les Années lumière (The Years of Light) was directed by Robert Enrico. The second part, La Révolution française: les Années terribles (The Years of Terror), was directed by Richard T. Heffron. The full movie runs at 360 minutes, but the edited-for-television version is slightly longer.
The film was produced in 1989 for the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution. It purports to tell a faithful and neutral story of the Revolution, from the calling of the Estates-General to the death of Maximilien de Robespierre. The film was high-budgeted and boasted an international cast. It was shot in French, German and English.
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Les événements relatés dans les deux parties de La Révolution française sont nombreux. Les producteurs ont voulu relever le défi inédit de couvrir l’ensemble de la période révolutionnaire et donc tous ses principaux événements (ce qui en fait d'ailleurs un film pédagogique malgré son parti pris clairement dantoniste). L'œuvre passe cependant très vite sur la guerre de Vendée, qui n’est mentionnée que quatre fois, notamment par Robespierre et Desmoulins, qui dénonce le massacre d’ « un peuple entier ». Le film se termine sur l’exécution de Robespierre et Saint-Just en 1794 et omet d'évoquer la suite des événements. Toutefois, la Révolution française s'étend jusqu'en 1799, année du coup d'État de Napoléon Bonaparte.Actors
Klaus Maria Brandauer
(Danton)
Andrzej Seweryn
(Robespierre)
François Cluzet
(Camille Desmoulins)
Jean-François Balmer
(Louis XVI)
Jane Seymour
(Marie Antoinette)
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