Wajda's Danton - Making-of ''DANTON'' [1983]

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French with english subtitles. DANTON : L'œuvre est construite sur l'opposition entre deux hommes, Danton et Robespierre, qui incarnent deux visions différentes de la Révolution : le premier veut arrêter la Terreur, le second souhaite la prolonger et conserver l'exécutif aux comités. César du meilleur réalisateur 1983. BELOW IS AN EXCERPT OF A VERY INTERESTING FILM ESSAY on DANTON that can be found in its entirety here : https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/1072-danton-the-worst-of-times The film was based on the play The Danton Affair, by Stanis?awa Przybyszewska, first performed in 1931. Przybyszewska was a Communist whose sympathies lay with the radical Robespierre. Wajda revived the play in 1975, but he turned it on its head, making a hero out of the more moderate Danton. By 1980, the high point of the Solidarity liberation movement, he had arranged to make his version of the play into a film, a Polish-French coproduction with Gaumont. Studio scenes were to be done in Poland, while location scenes were to be shot in France. Martial law was imposed on December 13, 1981, however, in a coup directed by the Soviet Union: General Jaruzelski was installed, Solidarity outlawed, communications cut, a curfew introduced, and production in Poland became impossible. The whole project was then transferred to Paris, with Wajda taking some of his Polish actors, including Wojciech Pszoniak, who plays Robespierre, and a small group of co-workers. As a result, Wajda, this most Polish of directors, was forced to become an émigré, only returning from exile in 1989, when the Jaruzelski government fell. (He went on to receive his adopted country’s highest film honor, the César, for best director in 1983.) Danton takes place in the spring of 1794, almost five years after the fall of the Bastille and immediately following a period when the revolutionary government, facing internal enemies, conspirators, and the advance of foreign armies on French territory, created the Committee of Public Safety and the Revolutionary Tribunal to repress its enemies and raise additional military forces. Robespierre and Danton became the Revolution’s leading figures, and huge numbers of suspects were arrested and executed, including Marie Antoinette and the liberal-thinking Duc d’Orléans, during what became known as the Reign of Terror. Criterion release : https://www.criterion.com/films/555-danton ALSO AVAILABLE ON THIS CHANNEL : ROSELYNE ET LES LIONS : https://youtu.be/zMcybw5To1I VOIR GILLES GROULX : https://youtu.be/2mhdu-fK75U I Don't Just Want You To Love Me - R.W. Fassbinder : https://youtu.be/gBlm8ys1Pj4 Painting With Light - Jack Cardiff On Black Narcissus : https://youtu.be/tuwU_f42dUk ROGUE MALE making of MANHUNT [1941] by Fritz Lang : https://youtu.be/ugi1H4o919Q