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Marat/Sade

Marat/Sade

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Status

Released

Release Date

Feb 22, 1967

Runtime

1h 56m

Genres

Music, Drama, History

User Score

61%

Original Title

Marat/Sade

Production Companies

National Film Finance Corporation (NFFC)

Director

Peter Brook

Description

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.