MARAT/SADE - 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)

 




















Directed by: Peter Brook
Based on the stage play by: Peter Weiss
Starring: Patrick Magee, Ian Richardson, Michael Williams, Clifford Rose, Glenda Jackson, Freddie Jones, Jonathan Burn, Jeanette Landis, Hugh Sullivan, John Hussey, W. Morgan Sheppard, John Steiner, Henry Woolf, Leon Lissek, Michael Percival

116 minutes
(NR - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, nudity)

PLOT:
In an insane asylum, Marquis de Sade directs Jean Paul Marat's last days through a theater play, using the patients as his actors.