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 (1967)

Name: 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
Genre: Music, Drama, History
Released: 1967-02-22
Duration: 116 min
Cast: Patrick Magee, Ian Richardson, Michael Williams, Clifford Rose, Glenda Jackson

By Peter Weiss

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.

Watch 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 online

Released 1967-02-22 · 116 min · Music, Drama, History

Directed by Peter Brook

Cast

Patrick Magee as Marquis de Sade
Ian Richardson as Jean-Paul Marat
Michael Williams as Herald
Clifford Rose as Monsieur Coulmier
Glenda Jackson as Charlotte Corday
Freddie Jones as Cucurucu
Hugh Sullivan as Kokol
John Hussey as Newly Rich Lady
William Morgan Sheppard as A Mad Animal
Jonathan Burn as Polpoch
Jeanette Landis as Rossignol
Robert Langdon Lloyd as Jacques Roux (as Robert Lloyd)
John Steiner as Monsieur Dupere
James Mellor as Schoolmaster
Henry Woolf as Father