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Danton


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  Danton Review
Tookey's Rating
5 /10
 
Average Rating
7.30 /10
 
Starring
Gerard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Patrice Chereau
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Directed by: Andrzej Wajda (LONDON CRITICS' CIRCLE AWARD - DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR)
Written by: Jean-Claude Carriere, Andrzej Wajda, Agnieszka Holland, Boleslaw Michalek, Jacek Gasiorowsky, based on Stanislawa Przbyszewska's play)

 
 
 
Released: 1982
   
Genre: DRAMA
HORROR
COSTUME
BIOPIC
   
Origin: France/Poland
   
Length: 136
 
 


 
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Magnificent... compelling, fiercely intelligent.
(Philip French, Observer)
Exhilarating... The swirling urgency and physical vigour of [his] direction puts flesh, bone and human faces on the arguments as the Revolution devours its children... Wajda's main and most marvellous achievement, however, has been to keep the scale of his theme to proportions which are always human and recognisable, and to create a kind of hectic intimacy through the deployment of his cameras and the organisation of his cast... An epic film without the vulgarity of epics.
(Julie Davidson, Glasgow Herald)
Art of a high order precisely because it manages to convey its messages in so many ways... It is a mighty film in simple garb.
(Ian Bell, Scotsman)

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