Marat/Sade backdrop

Marat/Sade 1967 Directed by Peter Brook

By Peter Weiss

In Charenton Asylum, the Marquis de Sade directs a play about Jean Paul Marat's death, using the patients as actors. Based on 'The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade', a 1963 play by Peter Weiss.

Production Country United Kingdom
Language English
Spoken Language English
Release Date 22 February 1967
116 mins
Cast
Patrick Magee Marquis de Sade
Ian Richardson Jean-Paul Marat
Clifford Rose Monsieur Coulmier
Glenda Jackson Charlotte Corday
Freddie Jones Cucurucu
John Hussey Newly Rich Lady
Jeanette Landis Rossignol
Robert Langdon Lloyd Jacques Roux (as Robert Lloyd)
John Steiner Monsieur Dupere
James Mellor Schoolmaster
Henry Woolf Father
John Harwood Voltaire
Leon Lissek Lavoisier
Susan Williamson Simone Evrard
Mary Allen Patient
Brenda Kempner Madame Coulmier
Mark Jones Mother
Sheila Grant Patient
Lynn Pinkney Patient
Ian Hogg Military Representative
Ruth Baker Mademoiselle Coulmier
Guy Gordon Patient
Tim Hardy Guard (as Timothy Hardy)