Marat/Sade (1967)

User Rating:

7.5/10   

Director:

Peter Brook

Writers:

Adrian Mitchell (screenplay)
Geoffrey Skelton (English translation)
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Release Date:

13 April 1967 (Sweden)

Genre:

Drama | Music

Plot:

In an insane Asylum, Marquis de Sade directs the Jean Paul Marat's last days through a theather play. The actors are the patients.

Plot Keywords:

Chaos | Insane Asylum | Mental Hospital | Mental Patient | Singing

Awards:

2 wins

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 Langdon Lloyd	...	Jacques Roux (as Robert Lloyd)
John Steiner	...	Monsieur Dupere
James Mellor	...	Schoolmaster
Henry Woolf	...	Father
John Harwood	...	Voltaire
Leon Lissek	...	Lavoisier
Susan Williamson	...	Simone Evrard
Carol Raymont	...	Patient
Mary Allen	...	Patient
Brenda Kempner	...	Madame Coulmier
Mark Jones	...	Mother
Maroussia Frank	...	Patient
Tamara Fuerst	...	Patient
Sheila Grant	...	Patient
Lynn Pinkney	...	Patient
Ian Hogg	...	Military Representative
Ruth Baker	...	Mademoiselle Coulmier
Michael Farnsworth	...	Patient
Guy Gordon	...	Patient
Michael Percival	...	Patient
Heather Canning	...	Nun
Jennifer Tudor	...	Nun
Timothy Hardy	...	Guard
Stanford Trowell	...	Guard

Directed by
Peter Brook

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Adrian Mitchell		screenplay and verse adaptation
Geoffrey Skelton		English translation
Peter Weiss		play

Produced by
Michael Birkett	....	producer

Original Music by
Richard Peaslee

Cinematography by
David Watkin

Film Editing by
Tom Priestley

Production Design by
Sally Jacobs

Art Direction by
Ted Marshall

Costume Design by
John Hales
Lynn Hope
Gunilla Palmstierna-Weiss

Makeup Department
Alan Boyle	....	makeup artist
Alan Boyle	....	wig maker
Ken Lintott	....	makeup artist
Ken Lintott	....	wig maker
Bunty Phillips	....	makeup artist (as Bunty Philips)
Betty Sherriff	....	hair stylist

Production Management
Jack Swinburne	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Anthony Way	....	first assistant director
Ariel Levy	....	assistant director (uncredited)
Anthony Waye	....	assistant director (uncredited)

Sound Department
Bob Allen	....	sound recordist (as Robert Allen)
Robin Clegg	....	boom operator
Hugh Strain	....	dubbing mixer

Camera and Electrical Department
Wally Byatt	....	focus puller
Jim Day	....	camera operator
Roy Ford	....	focus puller

Editorial Department
Rex Pyke	....	assistant editor

Music Department
Richard Callinan	....	musician
Mike Gould	....	musician
Patrick Gowers	....	composer: title music
Patrick Gowers	....	musical director
Paul Hiley	....	musician
Nicholas Moes	....	musician
Rainer Schulein	....	musician

Other crew
Malcolm Goddard	....	choreographer
Josephine Knowles	....	continuity
Diana Stanley	....	stage manager

Production Companies

• Marat Sade Productions
• Royal Shakespeare Company

Distributors

• Chapel Distribution (1997) (Australia) (theatrical) (35mm print)
• United Artists Corporation (1967) (UK) (theatrical)
• United Artists (1967) (USA)

Also Known As:

The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum at Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade (UK) (complete title)

Runtime:

116 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

UK:X | USA:Not Rated | Argentina:16 | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15

Filming Locations:

Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England, UK

Company:

Marat Sade Productions

Trivia:

Patrick Magee won the 1966 Tony Award (New York City) for Supporting or Features Actor in a Drama for "Marat/Sade" as Marquis de Sade recreating his role in this production.

Quotes:

Marquis de Sade: To me, the only reality is imagination; the world inside myself. The revolution no longer interests me.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Asylum: (#1.4)" (1996)

freedom versus captivity - the seminal story

One must read the play and see the background of Peter Weiss in order to get the full feel of this movie. It is absolutely the best presentation of the politics of man and our inability to ever resolve the major issues of our existence. Peter Weiss has fully captured the unending struggle between the politics necessary to obtain freedom versus that which enslaves. The best parts are the discussions between Sade and Marat as to the results of freedom versus dictatorship and capitalism versus socialism. The entire story provides a voyage through the human comedy and shows the inability of humanity to ever figure out the real truth of our existence and relationship to each other and our socitey. The result is a better understanding of the sinusoidal flow of the give an take of our history.