Marat/Sade

Music, Drama, History | 1967-02-22 | United Kingdom

6.1 / 10

116 min.

By Peter Weiss

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.