Marat Sade
Genres: Drama, History, Music
Country: United Kingdom
Director: Peter Brook
Actors: Patrick Magee, Clifford Rose, Glenda Jackson
Duration: 116 min
Year: 1967
The Marquis de Sade is locked in the Charenton mental hospital and decides to put on a play. His overseers agree as long as he follows certain conditions. He writes and directs the other mental patients in a play based on the life of the Jean-Paul Marat. As the play progresses, the inmates become more and more possessed by the violence of the play and become extremely difficult to control. Finally, all chaos breaks loose...
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