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.
Cast
Patrick Magee
Marquis de Sade
Ian Richardson
Jean-Paul Marat
Michael Williams
Herald
Clifford Rose
Monsieur Coulmier
Glenda Jackson
Charlotte Corday
Freddie Jones
Cucurucu
Hugh Sullivan
Kokol
John Hussey
Newly Rich Lady
William Morgan Sheppard
A Mad Animal
Jonathan Burn
Polpoch
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
Carol Raymont
Patient
Mary Allen
Patient
Brenda Kempner
Madame Coulmier
Mark Jones
Mother
Maroussia Frank
Patient
Tamara Fuerst
Patient
Sheila Grant
Patient
Lynn Pinkney
Patient
Ian Hogg
Military Representative
Ruth Baker
Mademoiselle Coulmier
Michael Farnsworth
Patient
Guy Gordon
Patient
Michael Percival
Patient
Heather Canning
Nun
Jennifer Tudor
Nun
Tim Hardy
Guard (as Timothy Hardy)
Stanford Trowell
Guard
Crew
Peter Brook
Director
Adrian Mitchell
Screenplay
Tom Priestley
Editor
Rex Pyke
Assistant Editor
David Watkin
Director of Photography
Anthony Waye
First Assistant Director
Ariel Levy
Second Assistant Director
Michael Birkett
Producer
Sally Jacobs
Production Design
Jim Day
Camera Operator
John Hales
Costume Designer
Lynn Hope
Costume Designer
Gunilla Palmstierna-Weiss
Costume Designer
Betty Sherriff
Hairdresser
Alan Boyle
Makeup Designer, Wig Designer
Ken Lintott
Makeup Designer, Wig Designer
Bunty Phillips
Makeup Artist
Hugh Strain
Sound Mixer
Bob Allen
Sound Recordist
Robin Clegg
Boom Operator
Richard Peaslee
Original Music Composer
Patrick Gowers
Music Director
Richard Callinan
Musician
Mike Gould
Musician
Paul Hiley
Musician
Nicholas Moes
Musician
Rainer Schulein
Musician
Malcolm Goddard
Choreographer
Nigel Cousins
Clapper Loader
Geoffrey Skelton
Translator
Josephine Knowles
Continuity
Jack Swinburne
Production Manager
Wally Byatt
Focus Puller
Roy Ford
Focus Puller
Peter Weiss
Original Story
Edward Marshall
Art Direction
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