Plot
Robespierre, a child of the Enlightenment, passionate about justice and concerned with order, is thrust into the storms of the Revolution. He becomes one of its most tragic figures. The guiding thread of this dramatic development is Robespierre’s own speech. Excerpts from his major addresses are thus staged, emphasizing the contradictions of a man who advocates for the abolition of the death penalty yet justifies the Reign of Terror, who tirelessly fights for universal suffrage but helps establish an exceptional regime. His life and exercise of power are confronted, thirty years apart, with the analyses and judgments of historians and political figures from the Bicentennial and the early 21st century: Michel Vovelle, Michel Biard, Hervé Leuwers, Patrice Gueniffey, Jacques Chaban-Delmas, Michel Debré, Lionel Jospin, Jean-Louis Bourlanges, and Alexis Corbière.
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Cast
Christophe Allwright
Maximilien Robespierre
Patrick Laplace
Louis Antoine Saint-Just
Martine Abela
Éléonore Duplay
Régis Ivanov
Georges Danton
Alain Floret
Jacques-René Hébert
Jean-Pierre Moreux
Billaud-Varenne
Marc Brunet
Collot d'Herbois
Guy Verame
Joseph Fouché
François Lauzon
Tallien
Pierre Casadei
Vadier
Michel Debré
Lionel Jospin
Hervé Leuwers
Alexis Corbière
Michel Biard
Max Gallo
Jean-Louis Bourlanges
Patrice Gueniffey
Bertrand Renouvin
