Film

Marat/Sade

Name: Marat/Sade
Director: Peter Brook
Released: 1967
Rating: 6.3
Cast: Patrick Magee, Ian Richardson, Michael Williams, Clifford Rose, Glenda Jackson

1967 · 116 min · ★ 6.3 · Dir. Peter Brook

By Peter Weiss

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.