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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) Country of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 1967
Running Times: 114 mins 116 mins
Format: colour 35mm
Ratio:
Sound: mono CREDITS PRODUCTION
Production Company: A Marat Sade Production / Royal Shakespeare Company
Producer: Michael Birkett
Production Manager: Jack Swinburne SCRIPT
Verse Adaptation: Adrian Mitchell
Play: Peter Weiss, translated by Geoffrey Skelton DIRECTION
Director: Peter Brook
1st Assistant Director: Anthony Way
Assistant Director: Ariel Levy (uncredited) PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: David Watkin
Camera Operator: Jim Day
Focus: Wally Byatt, Roy Ford
Colour: DeLuxe EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editor: Tom Priestley
Assistant Editor: Rex Pyke MUSIC
Music: Richard Peaslee; Patrick Gowers (organ prelude)
Music Performed By: Richard Callinan, Mike Gould, Paul Hiley, Nicholas Moes, Rainer Schulein SOUND
Sound Recordist: Robert
Allen
Boom Operator: Robin Clegg
Dubbing Mixer: Hugh Strain MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Alan Boyle, Ken Lintott, Bunty Phillips
Hair: Betty Sherriff
Wig Makers: Alan Boyle, Ken Lintott
Costume Designers: John Hales, Lynn Hope, Gunilla Palmstierna-Weiss DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Sally Jacobs
Art Director: Ted Marshall MISCELLANEOUS
Continuity: Josephine Knowles
Choreographer: Malcolm Goddard
Stage Manager: Diana Stanley CAST
Patrick Magee (Marquis de Sade)
Ian Richardson (Jean-Paul Marat)
Michael Williams (Herald)
Clifford Rose (Monsieur Coulmier)
Glenda Jackson (Charlotte Corday)
Freddie Jones (Cucurucu)
Hugh Sullivan (Kokol)
John Hussey (newly rich lady)
William Morgan Sheppard (a mad animal)
Jonathan Burn (Polpoch)
Jeanette Landis (Rossignol)
Robert Lloyd (Jacques Roux)
John Steiner (Monsieur Dupere)
James Mellor (schoolmaster)
Henry Woolf (father)
John Harwood (Voltaire)
Leon Lissek (Lavoisier)
Susan Williamson (Simone Evrard)
Brenda Kempner (Madame Coulmier)
Mark Jones (mother)
Carol Raymont, Mary Allen, Maroussia Frank, Tamara Fuerst, Sheila Grant, Lynn Pinkney, Michael Farnsworth, Guy Gordon, Michael Percival (patients)
Ian Hogg (military representative)
Ruth Baker (Mademoiselle Coulmier)
Heather Canning, Jennifer Tudor (nuns)
Timothy Hardy, Stanford Trowell (guards) SUMMARY In an asylum in Napoleonic France, the Marquis de Sade stages a play about the failure of the French Revolution, populating his cast with insane inmates as a form of therapy. It centres around one of the leader of the revolution, Jean Paul Marat and his murder by Charlotte Corday. AVAILABILITY USA
Theatrical Distributor: United Artists
DVD Distributor: Image Entertainment (ID 4523 WBDVD) CENSORSHIP HISTORY Finland
Rating: K-16 Sweden
Rating: 15 USA
Rating: R AWARDS 1967
Locarno International Film Festival
Special Mention (Peter Brook) - winner 1969
Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists
Silver Ribbon - Regista del miglior film straniero (Peter Brook) - winner (tied with Robert Bresson for Mouchette (1967)) TIMELINE
1966
February
22: USA - premiere at the Trans-Lux East Theatre, New York City
1967
April
13: Sweden - theatrical release
1968
February
16: Finland - theatrical release
1998
July
22: USA - DVD release (Image Entertainment (ID 4523 WBDVD))
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Marat/Sade
REFERENCES BOOKS Reference Guide to Fantastic Films p.289
credits KEYWORDS
play into film; asylums; torture; insanity; french
revolution; marquis de sade
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