Marat/Sade Poster

Marat/Sade

By Peter Weiss

Starring: Patrick Magee, Ian Richardson, Michael Williams, Clifford Rose, Glenda Jackson

Writer: Adrian Mitchell, Peter Weiss

Release Date:
February 22, 1967
Ratings:
6.1 / 10
Director:
Peter Brook
Companies:
National Film Finance Corporation (NFFC)

Overview

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.