Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution (2009)

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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 documentary interviews to examine Robespierre's year in charge of the Committee Of Public Safety - the powerful state machine at the heart of Revolutionary France. Contesting Robespierre's legacy is Slavoj Zizek, who argues that terror in the cause of virtue is justifiable, and Simon Schama, who believes the road from Robespierre ran straight to the gulag and the 20th-century concentration camp. The drama, based on original sources, follows the life-and-death politics of the Committee during "Year Two" of the new Republic.

Oyuncular

• Jan Pearson

  Narrator (voice)

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  Stephen Hogan

  Maximillian Robespierre

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  Ed Stoppard

  Herault

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  Brian Pettifer

  Couthon

• David Andress

  Self - Author 'The Terror'

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  Martin Hancock

  Collot

• Colin Jones

  Self - Author 'The Great Nation'

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  Jonny Phillips

  Carnot

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  Slavoj Žižek

  Self - Author - 'In Defence of Lost Causes'

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  Simon Schama

  Self - Author - 'Citizens'

• Marisa Linton

  Self - Author - 'The Politics of Virtue'

• Hilary Mantel

  Self - Author - 'A Place of Greater Safety'

Ekip

Yönetmen

Carl Hindmarch

Senaryo

Mark Hayhurst

Görüntü yönetmeni

Neville Kidd