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Danton

Danton

■ Basic Data

ItemContent
Year1983
CountryFrance / Poland
DirectorAndrzej Wajda
CastGérard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Anne Alvaro, Patrice Chéreau, Angela Winkler
GenreBiographical drama film

■ Title Language Table

LanguageTextRomanization
EnglishDanton
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FrançaisDantonDanton
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ItalianoDantonDanton
РусскийДантонDanton
中文(简体)丹东
中文(繁體)丹東
한국어당통Dangtong
ไทยDantonDanton
Tiếng ViệtDantonDanton
Bahasa IndonesiaDantonDanton
日本語ダントンDanton

■ One-Line Definition

👉 A work that depicts a structure in which revolutionary legitimacy and institutionalized terror collide within the collapse of political idealism


■ Synopsis

Georges Danton returns to revolutionary Paris and confronts Robespierre’s machinery of political purity and state terror.


■ RECIPE Tags

#RevolutionaryTerror #PoliticalPurity #IdealismCollapse #PowerAndConscience


■ Primary Axis

  • Entry: Revolution against its own voice
     Reason: A founding revolutionary figure becomes a threat to the revolution he helped create
     Related Film: Reds
  • Middle: Virtue as coercion
     Reason: Political purity becomes a justification for suppressing dissent and legal violence
     Related Film: The Battle of Algiers
  • Core: Idealism devoured by power
     Reason: The revolutionary project turns into an apparatus that consumes its own legitimacy
     Related Film: The Death of Stalin

■ Secondary Axes

  • Tribunal as political weapon: Law becomes the instrument by which power converts accusation into elimination
     Related Film: A Man for All Seasons
  • Public virtue and private fear: Moral language conceals fear, factional struggle, and survival politics
     Related Film: The Conformist

■ Person

  • Director: Andrzej Wajda
  • Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Anne Alvaro, Patrice Chéreau, Angela Winkler

■ Structural Tags

#RevolutionaryCollapse #PurityMechanism #TribunalStructure


■ Attribute Tags

#FrancePoland #1983Film #BiographicalDramaFilm

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