Movie Description
Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution
(2009)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.
Cast
Maximillian Robespierre
Herault
Couthon
Self - Author 'The Terror'
Collot
Self - Author 'The Great Nation'
Carnot
Self - Author - 'In Defence of Lost Causes'
Self - Author - 'Citizens'
Self - Author - 'The Politics of Virtue'
Self - Author - 'A Place of Greater Safety'
Self - Author 'Fatal Purity'
Saint-Just
Narrator (voice)
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Facts
Original TitleTerror! Robespierre and the French Revolution
Status Released
Release Information
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2009-01-01
Original Language
Production CompaniesBBC
Genres
- Documentary
