Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution

6.5 2009

Documentary History

In 1794, French revolutionary Maximilien Robespierre produced the world's first defense of "state terror" - claiming that the road to virtue lay through political violence. This film combines drama, archive and document…

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Director: Carl Hindmarch
Writer: Mark Hayhurst

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Jan Pearson Narrator (voice)

Stephen Hogan Maximillian Robespierre

Ed Stoppard Herault

Brian Pettifer Couthon

David Andress Self - Author 'The Terror'

Martin Hancock Collot

Colin Jones Self - Author 'The Great Nation'

Jonny Phillips Carnot

Slavoj Žižek Self - Author - 'In Defence of Lost Causes'

Simon Schama Self - Author - 'Citizens'

Marisa Linton Self - Author - 'The Politics of Virtue'

Hilary Mantel Self - Author - 'A Place of Greater Safety'

Ruth Scurr Self - Author 'Fatal Purity'

George Maguire Saint-Just

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