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Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution (2009)

ALL 01/01/2009 (en) Documentary 0 Min
  • Release
    01/01/2009
  • Production
    BBC
  • Rotten tomato
    58%
  • Original title
    Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
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Overview

In 1794, French revolutionary Maximilien Robespierre produced the world's first defense of "state terror" - claiming that the road to virtue lay through political violence. This film combines drama, archive and documentary interviews to examine Robespierre's year in charge of the Committee Of Public Safety - the powerful state machine at the heart of Revolutionary France. Contesting Robespierre's legacy is Slavoj Zizek, who argues that terror in the cause of virtue is justifiable, and Simon Schama, who believes the road from Robespierre ran straight to the gulag and the 20th-century concentration camp. The drama, based on original sources, follows the life-and-death politics of the Committee during "Year Two" of the new Republic.

  1. Carl Hindmarch

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer



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  1. Stephen Hogan

    Maximillian Robespierre

  2. Ed Stoppard

    Herault

  3. Brian Pettifer

    Couthon

  4. David Andress

    Self - Author 'The Terror'

  5. Martin Hancock

    Collot

  6. Colin Jones

    Self - Author 'The Great Nation'

  7. Jonny Phillips

    Carnot

  8. Slavoj Žižek

    Self - Author - 'In Defence of Lost Causes'

  9. Simon Schama

    Self - Author - 'Citizens'

  10. Marisa Linton

    Self - Author - 'The Politics of Virtue'

  11. Hilary Mantel

    Self - Author - 'A Place of Greater Safety'

  12. Ruth Scurr

    Self - Author 'Fatal Purity'

  13. George Maguire

    Saint-Just

  14. Jan Pearson

    Narrator (voice)

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Casts : 14 , Crews : 1

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Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution (2009) 0 Min

ALL 01/01/2009 (en)
Documentary
  • Release 01/01/2009
  • Production
    BBC
  • Original title Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

In 1794, French revolutionary Maximilien Robespierre produced the world's first defense of "state terror" - claiming that the road to virtue lay through political violence. This film combines drama, archive and documentary interviews to examine Robespierre's year in charge of the Committee Of Public Safety - the powerful state machine at the heart of Revolutionary France. Contesting Robespierre's legacy is Slavoj Zizek, who argues that terror in the cause of virtue is justifiable, and Simon Schama, who believes the road from Robespierre ran straight to the gulag and the 20th-century concentration camp. The drama, based on original sources, follows the life-and-death politics of the Committee during "Year Two" of the new Republic.

  1. Carl Hindmarch

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer



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