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Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution
Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution

Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution

6.5/10

0hr 00mins

Country:GB

2009

Documentary
Spoken Languages: English

Overview:

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.

Budget

$0.00

Production companies

BBC

Genre

Documentary

Runtime

0hr 00mins

Rating

6.5/10

Release Date

2009-07-11

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