

Marat/Sade
By Peter Weiss
Music
Drama
History
Overview
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.
Status:
Released
Release Date:
1967-02-22
Runtime:
1h 56m
Director:
Peter Brook
Writer:
Adrian Mitchell
Top Cast

Patrick Magee
Marquis de Sade

Ian Richardson
Jean-Paul Marat

Michael Williams
Herald

Clifford Rose
Monsieur Coulmier

Glenda Jackson
Charlotte Corday

Freddie Jones
Cucurucu

Hugh Sullivan
Kokol

John Hussey
Newly Rich Lady

William Morgan Sheppard
A Mad Animal

Jonathan Burn
Polpoch

Jeanette Landis
Rossignol

Robert Langdon Lloyd
Jacques Roux (as Robert Lloyd)
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