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The Reign of Terror (5 September 1793 – 28 July 1794) (the latter is date 10 Thermidor, year II of the French Revolutionary Calendar), also known simply as The Terror (French: la Terreur), was a period of violence that occurred after the onset of the French Revolution, incited by conflict between rival political factions, the Girondins and the Jacobins, and marked by mass executions of "enemies of the revolution." The death toll ranged in the tens of thousands, with 16,594 executed by guillotine (2,639 in Paris), and another 25,000 in summary executions across France.
The guillotine (called the "National Razor") became the symbol of the revolutionary cause, strengthened by a string of executions: Marie Antoinette, King Louis XVI, the Girondins, Philippe Égalité (Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans) and Madame Roland, as well as many others, such as pioneering chemist Antoine Lavoisier, lost their lives under its blade. During 1794, revolutionary France was beset with conspiracies by internal and foreign enemies. Within France, the revolution was opposed by the French nobility, which had lost its inherited privileges. The Roman Catholic Church was generally against the Revolution, which had turned the clergy into employees of the state and required they take an oath of loyalty to the nation (through the Civil Constitution of the Clergy). In addition, the First French Republic was engaged in a series of wars with neighboring powers intent on crushing the revolution to prevent its spread.
Actors: Senta Berger (actress), Götz George (actor), Mathieu Carrière (actor), Will Quadflieg (actor), Rudolf Noelte (director), Birgit Doll (actress), Heribert Sasse (actor), Christian Quadflieg (actor), Regina Lemnitz (actress),
Genres: ,Actors: Henry Krauss (actor), Ernest Maupain (actor), Edmond T. Gréville (actor), Abel Gance (actor), Nicolas Koline (actor), Léon Larive (actor), Armand Bernard (actor), Jean Dréville (actor), Robert Arnoux (actor), Jean d'Yd (actor), Paul Amiot (actor), Pierre Ferval (actor), Joë Hamman (actor), Daniel Mendaille (actor), Max Maxudian (actor),
Plot: A massive six-hour biopic of Napoleon, tracing his career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign), his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant invasion of Italy in 1797 (the film stops there because it was intended to be part one of six, but director Abel Gance never raised the money to make the other five). The film's legendary reputation is due to the astonishing range of techniques that Gance uses to tell his story, culminating in the final twenty-minute triptych sequence, which alternates widescreen panoramas with complex multiple- image montages projected simultaneously on three screens.
Keywords: 1780s, 1790s, 18th-century, assassination, battle, beach, brother-brother-relationship, bully, campaign, character-name-in-titleActors: David Sharpe (actor), Nelson McDowell (actor), Kalla Pasha (actor), Lorimer Johnston (actor), Tom Kennedy (actor), Snitz Edwards (actor), Ramon Novarro (actor), James A. Marcus (actor), John George (actor), Edward Coxen (actor), William Humphrey (actor), Edward Connelly (actor), Lloyd Ingraham (actor), William Dyer (actor), George Siegmann (actor),
Plot: A law student becomes an outlaw French revolutionary when he decides to avenge the unjust killing of his friend. To get close to the aristocrat who has killed his friend the student adopts the identity of Scaramouche the clown.
Keywords: actor, actress, based-on-novel, duel, escape, french-revolution, georges-danton, historical-event, illegitimacy, jean-paul-marat