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Danton [digital videodisc] / Gaumont ; une coproduction Franco Polonaise, Gaumont-TFl Films production, S.F.P.C.-T.M ; avec la participation du Ministere de la culture, Paris, et Films Polski presentent ; un film d'Andrzej Wajda ; scénario Jean-Claude Carriere ; une production Margaret Menegoz, Les Films du losange ; régie, Patrick Bordier.

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[United States] : Criterion Collection : Janus Films, c2009.

Danton, Georges Jacques, 1759-1794 -- Drama.

Revolutionaries -- France -- Drama.

Motion pictures, French.

France -- History -- Reign of Terror, 1793-1794 -- Drama.

Criterion collection 464.

2 videodiscs (136 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([12] p.) : ill. (some col.) ; 19 cm.)

Special ed., double-disc set, Widescreen.

Disc 1. [The film] -- disc 2. The supplements.

Georges Danton, the popular revolutionary leader, returns to Paris at a time when the new Republic is in disarray. Robespierre and his allies have set up a monstrous dictatorship, beginning the infamous "Reign of Terror." Danton pleads with the people for an end to the bloodshed which violates the spirit of their revolution.

César Award, 1983: Best Director.

BAFTA Film Award, 1984: Best Foreign Language Film.

Prix Louis Delluc, 1982.

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