Danton

Starring: Gerard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak Original UK Premiere: 1983 Dvd Release: 13th March, 2006 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: Anamorphic, PAL, Subtitled, Region 0 Encoding Subtitled In: English

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At last on DVD! A brilliant film - French revolutionaries portrayed, not as bloodthirsty loons, but human beings struggling to keep a tiger by the tail, torn between personal loyalties & an increasingly desperate political situation. Made at the time of Poland's Solidarity movement, it also has contemporary resonance. Oh, & it looks fantastic, too! One quibble - there is no subtitle-free option on the DVD for those of us with OK French . One of my top 5 films of all time - GET IT!!

Gerard Depardieu is a French actor. He was born in Chateauroux, Centre, France, the son of a sheet metal worker. His acting career started in the 1970s & by the early 1980s, he was one of the leading French actors gaining much attention for his role opposite Fanny Ardant in Francois Truffauts film La Femme dà côté & winning his first Cesar Award for Best Actor for his role in Le Dernier métro. He has been nominated a record-setting 14 times for the Cesar Award as Best Actor. After his first win in 1981, he won a second time in 1991 for Cyrano de Bergerac for which he was also nominated for the 1990 Academy Award for Best Actor. 1985. Best Actor Award. Venice Film Festival for his role in Police. 1990. Best Actor Award. Cannes Film Festival for his role in Camille Claudel. 1991. winner Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for his role in Green Card. In the 1990s he achieved some fame in North America too. Conquest of Paradise. Depardieu is the highest paid actor in France & one of the most powerful within the French film industry. Posters Of Bon Voyage

Editors Choice: Bon Voyage, Nathalie, The Closet, Asterix And Obelix Take On Caesar, Les Miserables, Danton, Maitresse, Cyrano De Bergerac, View DVDology

Wojciech Pszoniak is a movie & theatrical actor. He gained international visibility following Andrzej Wajda s 1975 Ziemia obiecana movie where he played Max, one of the three main characters. This allowed him to find work in France, where he is currently living & working most of the time. He left Poland during the 1980-1981 political unrest period which saw the appearance of Solidarity, the first free trade union & ended with the imposition of the martial law on December 13, 1981. Since the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, Pszoniak frequently appears in Polish movies, theater plays or on television talk-shows. Internationally, he simplified his first name into Wojtek, which is the standard diminutive of relatively formal-sounding Wojciech in the Polish language & also the way everybody normally calls him in Poland. He often plays Jewish characters ; in France this is partially attributable to his role in Promised Land, but also to his remaining foreign accent.

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