The read
Critics rate it 18 points higher than audiences do.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7.5/10
Rotten Tomatoes93%
Critics rate it 18 points higher than audiences do.
37 audience votes
Key crew
- Peter BrookDirector
- Adrian MitchellScreenplay
- Richard PeasleeOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Patrick MageeMarquis de Sade
- Ian RichardsonJean-Paul Marat
- Michael WilliamsHerald
- Clifford RoseMonsieur Coulmier
- Glenda JacksonCharlotte Corday
- Freddie JonesCucurucu
- Hugh SullivanKokol
- John HusseyNewly Rich Lady
- William Morgan SheppardA Mad Animal
- Jonathan BurnPolpoch
- Jeanette LandisRossignol
- Robert Langdon LloydJacques Roux (as Robert Lloyd)