Released
Marat/Sade
February 22 1967 (almost 58 years ago)Rating
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By Peter Weiss
- Director: Peter Brook
- Writer: Adrian Mitchell
- Genres: Music, Drama, History
- Runtime: 1 h 56 m
- Country: United Kingdom
- Company: National Film Finance Corporation (NFFC)
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.