Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution

Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution (2009)


  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release Date: 2009-01-01
  • User Rating: 5.8/10 from 5 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 36min
  • Production Company: BBC
  • Production Country: United Kingdom
  • Director: 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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  • Stephen Hogan

    as Maximillian Robespierre
  • Ed Stoppard

    as Herault
  • Brian Pettifer

    as Couthon
  • David Andress

    as Self - Author 'The Terror'
  • Martin Hancock

    as Collot
  • Colin Jones

    as Self - Author 'The Great Nation'
  • Jonny Phillips

    as Carnot
  • Slavoj Žižek

    as Self - Author - 'In Defence of Lost Causes'
  • Simon Schama

    as Self - Author - 'Citizens'
  • Marisa Linton

    as Self - Author - 'The Politics of Virtue'
  • Hilary Mantel

    as Self - Author - 'A Place of Greater Safety'
  • Ruth Scurr

    as Self - Author 'Fatal Purity'
  • George Maguire

    as Saint-Just
  • Jan Pearson

    as Narrator (voice)
Directing Carl Hindmarch Director