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Danton
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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780780021792
Format: Color, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0780021797
Label: Triumph Films
Languages: English (Subtitled), Polish (Original Language), Analog
Manufacturer: Triumph Films
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Triumph Films
Release Date: June 16, 2000
Running Time: 138 minutes
Studio: Triumph Films
Theatrical Release Date: 1982
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Rating:  - In my opinion: Still the best film to date on the Revolution
Although DANTON distills events that occurred over several months into a matter of days, this film comes very close to taking viewers back to Paris on the eve of "The Great Terror."
I have seen DANTON many times, and I am still impressed with its realism and impact. This piece is beautifully cast, although I believe Robespierre and Desmoulins were a bit slighter in build than they are portrayed.
In my own role of college teacher, I was recently asked by a colleague to ... Read More
Rating: - Tremendous and Tragic
I have a soft spot for Wajda's films but this one beats them all. The knife-edge politics, the ulcer-inducing decision making and the ultimate question... did he simply misjudge the situation or did his arrogance drag him down? What makes this film particularly poignant is that it is contemporary with the events taking place in Poland; Solidarity and martial law. Wajda cleverly casts Polish actors as the coldly focussed Robespierre party and Frenchmen as the over-idealistic and headstrong followers ... Read More
Rating: - Light and dust of history
The lingering impression of "Danton" is one of almost unbearably bright light, whiteness and dust swirling in rays of cold sunlight. When I want to cite an example of history brought to real, physical, wrinkled, dusty, sweaty life, I refer to "Danton".
I'm not a Gerard Depardieu fan--he tends too much to be always playing Gerard Depardieu--but he has a knack for getting into some of the greatest films. While his Danton here seems overblown and hero-ized (he was cheek-by-jowl with Robespierre ... Read More
Rating: - A Lesson In Movie Making
It is a really fantastic movie. One of Wajda's best and one of Depardieu's best. The movie is set in post-Revolution France, in which two groups, one headed by Danton (Depardieu) and one by Robespierre (Wodjciech Pszoniak) who also give a great performance.
The movie is a metaphor for how the persuit of power can make a once idealistic movement into the same dictatorship it has overthrown. It is something that has been repeated all throughout history.
Robespierre, one of the leaders ... Read More
Rating: - In the Way to the Scaffold.
Andrzej Wajda is one of the best Pole filmmaker.
He has delivered more than 40 movies, many of them multi-awarded and with critic's acclaim. His beginnings were under very restricted conditions in his native Poland, low budget and censored thematic. Even thou he managed to create powerful art pieces.
Only as a sample we may mention: "Kanal" (1957) a war drama; the poetical and stark "The Birch Wood" (1970); Oscar nominated "The Promised Land" (1975); Cannes Golden Palm nominated "Without Anesthesia" ... Read More
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