Danton (Criterion Collection) (DVD)

Gerard Depardieu and Wojciech Pszoniak star in Andrzej Wajda's powerful, intimate depiction of the ideological clash between the earthy, man-of-the-people Georges Danton and icy Jacobin extremist Maximilien Robespierre, both key figures of the French Revolution. By drawing parallels to Polish 'solidarity,' a movement that was being quashed by the government as the film went into production, Wajda drags history into the present. Meticulous and fiery, Danton has been hailed as one of the greatest films ever made about the Terror.

Starring: Gérard Depardieu, Patrice Ch reau, Patrice Chéreau, Gerard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Patrice Chereau, Gerard Gardy, Boguslaw Linda, Angela Winkler, Alain Mace, Angel Sedgwick, Czeslaw Wollejko, Franciszek Starowieyski, Gerard Hardy, Jean-Loup Wolff, Jerzy Trela, Lucien Melki, Malgorzata Zajaczkowska, Vladimir Yordanoff, Anne Alvaro, Roland Blanche, Emmanuelle Debever, Krzysztof Globisz, Ronald Guttman, Tadeusz Huk, Stephane Jobert, Marian Kociniak, Marek Kondrat, Serge Merlin, Leonard Pietraszak, Roger Planchon, Andrzej Seweryn, Jerzy Trella, Jacques Villeret, Wladimir Yordanoff

Director: Emmanuel Schlumberger, Margaret Menegoz