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Robespierre 1789-1989 (2019)
Directed by Hervé Pernot
Documentary, History
Robespierre, a child of the Enlightenment, passionate about justice and concerned with order, is thrust into the storms of the Revolution. He becomes one of its most tragic figures. The guiding thread of this dramatic development is Robespierre’s own speech. Excerpts from his major addresses are thus staged, emphasizing the contradictions of a man who advocates for the abolition of the death penalty yet justifies the Reign of Terror, who tirelessly fights for universal suffrage but helps establish an exceptional regime. His life and exercise of power are confronted, thirty years apart, with the analyses and judgments of historians and political figures from the Bicentennial and the early 21st century: Michel Vovelle, Michel Biard, Hervé Leuwers, Patrice Gueniffey, Jacques Chaban-Delmas, Michel Debré, Lionel Jospin, Jean-Louis Bourlanges, and Alexis Corbière.
Cast
Patrick Laplace
Louis Antoine Saint-Just
Alain Floret
Jacques-René Hébert
Pierre Casadei
Vadier
Michel Debré
Lionel Jospin
Crew
- Director
- Hervé Pernot
- Writer
- Hervé Pernot
- Editor
- Erwan Gloaguen
Details
- Release date
- 2019-01-01
- Genres
- Documentary, History
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- French
- Countries
- France
- Production
- Cité Films, La Sept-Arte, Les Productions Cercle Bleu, Conseil Régional du Nord/Pas-de-Calais, France•3, Editions Harmattan