Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution
Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution

Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution

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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.

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Jan Pearson

Narrator (voice)

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Stephen Hogan

Maximillian Robespierre

Stephen Hogan
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Ed Stoppard

Herault

Ed Stoppard
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Brian Pettifer

Couthon

Brian Pettifer
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David Andress

Self - Author 'The Terror'

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Martin Hancock

Collot

Martin Hancock
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Colin Jones

Self - Author 'The Great Nation'

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Jonny Phillips

Carnot

Jonny Phillips
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Slavoj Žižek

Self - Author - 'In Defence of Lost Causes'

Slavoj Žižek
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Simon Schama

Self - Author - 'Citizens'

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Marisa Linton

Self - Author - 'The Politics of Virtue'

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Hilary Mantel

Self - Author - 'A Place of Greater Safety'

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Ruth Scurr

Self - Author 'Fatal Purity'

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George Maguire

Saint-Just

George Maguire

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