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The persecution and assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as performed by the inmates of the asylum at Charenton under the direction of the Marquis de Sade / United Artists ; The Royal Shakespeare Company presents Peter Brook's production ; produced by Michael Birkett ; directed by Peter Brook ; screen adaptation by Adrian Mitchell.
LIBRA DVD 012 857
Available from offsite location
LIBRA DVD PT2685.E5 V4342 2001
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Weiss, Peter, 1916-1982. Verfolgung und Ermordung Jean Paul Marats, author.
- Series:
- Avant-garde cinema
- Language:
- English
- French
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Weiss, Peter--Film adaptations.
- Weiss, Peter.
- Sade, marquis de, 1740-1814--Drama.
- Sade.
- Marat, Jean Paul, 1743-1793--Assassination--Drama.
- Marat, Jean Paul.
- Marat, Jean Paul, 1743-1793.
- Sade, marquis de, 1740-1814.
- Psychiatric hospitals--France--Drama.
- Psychiatric hospitals.
- Assassination.
- France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Drama.
- France.
- History.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Feature films.
- Video recordings.
- Film adaptations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (120) min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Title on container: Marat/Sade
- Peter Brook's Marat/Sade
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Monica, CA : MGM DVD, [2000]
- Language Note:
- In English or Spanish soundtracks with optional French and Spanish subtitles.
- Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
- System Details:
- DVD; Dolby digital mono.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- Dolby
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- The infamous Marquis de Sade, confined to an asylum, directs the other inmates in a re-enactment of the bloody assassination of French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat.
- Participant:
- Glenda Jackson, Patrick Magee, Ian Richardson.
- Credits:
- Photography by David Watkin; edited by Tom Priestley; music by Richard Peaslee; English translation by Geoffrey Skelton; verse adaptation by Adrian Mitchell; choreographer, Malcolm Goddard.
- [Original theatrical] widescreen format.
- Notes:
- Based on Verfolgung und Ermordung Jean Paul Marats / Peter Weiss.
- Includes original theatrical trailer.
- Videodisc release of the motion picture produced in 1966.
- ISBN:
- 0792850335
- OCLC:
- 249386774
- Publisher Number:
- 027616864444
- 1002213 MGM DVD
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