Cinetrā
Cinetrā
Cinetrā
Directed by
By Peter Weiss
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, Ian Richardson, Michael Williams, Clifford Rose, Glenda Jackson, Freddie Jones, Hugh Sullivan, John Hussey, William Morgan Sheppard, Jonathan Burn, Jeanette Landis, Robert Langdon Lloyd, John Steiner, James Mellor, Henry Woolf, John Harwood, Leon Lissek, Susan Williamson, Carol Raymont, Mary Allen
Writers: Adrian Mitchell (Screenplay), Peter Weiss (Original Story)
Cinematographer: David Watkin
Production Designer: Sally Jacobs, Edward Marshall
Editor: Tom Priestley
Sound Designer: Hugh Strain
Composer: Richard Peaslee
Costume Designer: Gunilla Palmstierna-Weiss, John Hales
Direction team: Ariel Levy (Second Assistant Director), Anthony Waye (First Assistant Director), Josephine Knowles (Continuity)
Producer: Michael Birkett
Production: National Film Finance Corporation
