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Danton
Danton (1983)
, 2h16
Directed by Andrzej Wajda
Origin Pologne
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Théâtre, Political films, Films based on plays, Histoire de France, French Revolution films
Actors Gérard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Anne Alvaro, Patrice Chéreau, Bogusław Linda, Roger Planchon

The film begins in the spring of 1794, when the Reign of Terror was in full swing. On the borders of Paris, any vehicles entering Paris, including the carriage of Danton, who has just ridden in, are being searched. Robespierre, meanwhile, is sick in his bed. His landlady's daughter, Éléonore Duplay, attempts to comfort him, but is unable to. Her nephew, whom she is taking care of, is meanwhile being made to memorize lines from the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen. Back in the streets of Paris, starving lines of people, waiting for bread, discuss the possible reasons for the lack of it. Whether or not it is an enemy plot, the people do know that they are hungry, and that hunger leads to revolt. Once the bread store actually opens, and they finally begin to receive their bread, they are distracted by their other source of faith and hope in life: Danton. As Robespierre is watching, Danton is swarmed by a mob of supporters and fans, who all cry out for help. Robespierre, in his flat, is visited by Heron, the chief of the secret police, and instructs him to destroy the print shop of Camille Desmoulins, who is publishing pro-Dantonist circulars.
Monsieur N.
Monsieur N. (2003)
, 2h
Directed by Antoine de Caunes
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Historical
Themes Political films, Histoire de France, Napoleonic Wars films, French Revolution films
Actors Philippe Torreton, Richard E. Grant, Jay Rodan, Elsa Zylberstein, Roschdy Zem, Bruno Putzulu

Après la défaite de Waterloo, les Anglais exilent Napoléon Bonaparte à Sainte-Hélène, île minuscule perdue au milieu de l'Océan Atlantique. C'est ainsi que l’Empereur déchu, qui a eu l'Europe à ses pieds, se retrouve étouffé dans un lieu au climat hostile, où il devra rester jusqu'à sa mort. C’est là qu’il dicte ses mémoires et se construit son mythe.
Leaves from Satan's Book
Leaves from Satan's Book (1920)
, 2h47
Directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer
Origin Danemark
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Historical
Themes Films about religion, Demons in film, Films based on the Bible, Portrayals of Jesus in film, Histoire de France, French Revolution films
Actors Halvard Hoff, Johannes Meyer, Viggo Wiehe, Elith Pio, Clara Pontoppidan, Carlo Wieth

Satan has been cast out from hell and banished to Earth under decree of heaven. He can return, only through a series of temptations. However, for every soul who gives in to his tempting, one hundred years are added to his sentence. For every soul who resists, one thousand years are removed from his sentence. The film follows Satan throughout much of recorded history.
I Will Repay
I Will Repay (1924)
, 1h10
Directed by Henry Kolker
Origin United-kingdom
Themes Political films, French Revolution films
Actors Holmes Herbert, Pedro de Cordoba, Ivan Samson, A.B. Imeson, Georges Tréville

The film takes place in Paris, 1793: durung the Reign of Terror. Paul de Roulade (Pedro de Cordoba) is a hero to the Proletariat, who cry him 'Citizen de Roulade'. One evening he gets into an argument with the Vicomte de Marny over the virtues of a dancing girl; this leads to a fight (provoked by the viscount), forcing Paul to kill the nobleman. The viscount's sister Juliette de Marny (Flora le Breton) swears revenge: to achieve this, she infiltrates the de Roulade household and beguiles Paul into falling in love with her.
Chouans!
Chouans! (1988)
, 2h25
Directed by Philippe de Broca
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Political films, Histoire de France, French Revolution films
Actors Sophie Marceau, Philippe Noiret, Lambert Wilson, Stéphane Freiss, Roger Dumas, Jean-Pierre Cassel

In 1793, during the French Revolution, a young woman named Céline (Sophie Marceau), who was adopted by Count Savinien de Kerfadec, must choose between two men who have been raised like her brothers, Tarquin Larmor (Lambert Wilson) and Aurèle de Kerfadec (Stéphane Freiss), while they take opposite sides in the conflict. Tarquin, also adopted by the Count, is a partisan of the New Republic and defends the new political system; Aurèle, the Count's natural son, supports the Royalist side. Both sons are in love with Céline. After the Republican Army decimates Western France, an insurgence of peasants, clergy, and aristocrats loyal to the Royalists stage a counterrevolution.
The French Revolution
The French Revolution (1989)
, 5h24
Directed by Robert Enrico, Richard T. Heffron, Frédéric Auburtin
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Historical
Themes Politique, Political films, Histoire de France, French Revolution films, Films about royalty
Actors Klaus Maria Brandauer, Andrzej Seweryn, François Cluzet, Jean-François Balmer, Jane Seymour, Peter Ustinov

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.
The Eleven Schill Officers
The Eleven Schill Officers (1926)

Origin German
Genres Drama
Themes Political films, Histoire de France, Napoleonic Wars films, French Revolution films
Actors Gustav Adolf Semler, Grete Reinwald, Leopold von Ledebur, Werner Pittschau, Fritz Greiner, Albert Steinrück

Le film décrit le soulèvement raté de soldats prussiens menés par Ferdinand von Schill contre l'armée d'occupation napoléonienne et se focalise essentiellement sur les officiers de Ferdinand von Schill qui furent exécutés à Wesel.
A Royal Divorce
A Royal Divorce (1923)

Directed by Alexander Butler
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Théâtre, Political films, Films based on plays, French Revolution films
Actors Gertrude McCoy, Lillian Hall-Davis, Gerald Ames

Évocation du divorce de l'empereur Napoléon Ier et de son épouse l'impératrice Joséphine.
No Time for Nuts
No Time for Nuts (2006)
, 7minutes
Directed by Chris Renaud, Mike Thurmeier
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Comedy, Adventure, Animation
Themes La préhistoire, Time travel films, Films set in the future, Political films, Children's films, French Revolution films
Actors Chris Wedge

Scrat, the saber-toothed squirrel (a fictional animal from the Ice Age film series), while trying to find a place to hide his acorn, finds a buried time machine that states the date he's currently in (May 26, 20,000 BC) next to the ice-encased skeletal body of a human time traveler. He accidentally activates the machine, sending the acorn away. Scrat gets mad and tries to beat up the time machine and it sends him to the Middle Ages. Finding the acorn wedged under a rock, Scrat sees Excalibur and decides to use it as a lever to move the rock. He pulls out the sword but then finds himself under attack by a group of unseen archers, and uses the sword to block the arrows fired by the archers. He frees the acorn in the process and takes it and the time machine and races off to find cover, only to hide in the barrel of a cannon. The cannon fires him into the path of hundreds of incoming arrows. The time machine teleports the acorn mid-flight and Scrat just barely manages to activate the machine again for himself.