Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution

Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution by Carl Hindmarch

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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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Cast

Stephen Hogan

Stephen Hogan as Maximillian Robespierre

Ed Stoppard

Ed Stoppard as Herault

Brian Pettifer

Brian Pettifer as Couthon

David Andress

David Andress as Self - Author 'The Terror'

Martin Hancock

Martin Hancock as Collot

Colin Jones

Colin Jones as Self - Author 'The Great Nation'

Jonny Phillips

Jonny Phillips as Carnot

Slavoj Žižek

Slavoj Žižek as Self - Author - 'In Defence of Lost Causes'

Simon Schama

Simon Schama as Self - Author - 'Citizens'

Marisa Linton

Marisa Linton as Self - Author - 'The Politics of Virtue'

Hilary Mantel

Hilary Mantel as Self - Author - 'A Place of Greater Safety'

Ruth Scurr

Ruth Scurr as Self - Author 'Fatal Purity'

George Maguire

George Maguire as Saint-Just

Jan Pearson

Jan Pearson as Narrator (voice)

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