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	Danton (film) - Wikipédia
		Danton est un film de Andrzej Wajda sorti en 1983.
		En fait, ce film est une critique du système communiste.
		Danton (celui qui veut faire cesser la terreur) représente en fait Wałęsa et Robespierre représente Jaruzelski.
	fr.wikipedia.org /wiki/Danton_%28film%29 (158 words)

	History 14: Ideas in the Western Tradition: modern era (Hutton)
		The drama of the film turns on the struggle between Danton, portrayed as a lovable populist, and Robespierre, cast as a tormented visionary.
		The tension between Robespierre and Danton personifies the larger political conflict between the Committee of Public Safety and the Convention for the power to direct the course of the revolution.
		Danton upon his return in the winter of 1994 was still quite influential because of his reputation as a popular tribune and his network of friends in the Convention and in the revolutionary press of Paris.
	www.uvm.edu /~phutton/hst14/dantonfilm.html (1823 words)

	Danton
		Danton is the figurehead and leader of this group and he is looked to instigate a move against the government, as it is he who has the support of the people, rather than the committees who rule in their name.
		The links to Danton were at best dubious although there was little doubt about the involvement of certain of his friends, and while in the film this is depicted as little more than a trumped up charge the connection was real.
		Danton and his friends were sentenced after a highly controversial trial, in which there were indeed prevented from speaking and it was possible that there were only seven jurors as shown in the film.
	www.st-andrews.ac.uk /~histweb/scothist/brown_k/film/closed/reviews/danton.html (1711 words)

	Danton / 1982 / film review / Gerard Depardieu / Andrzej Wajda
		Danton is a joint Franco-Polish film from the distinguished Polish film director Andrzej Wajda.
		The film is based on the real-life story of Georges Danton (1759-1794), who played an important role in the revolution and who was guillotined by the state, along with many former heroes of the revolution, during Robespierre’s insane purge of the 1790s.
		The focus of the film is the intense political struggle between the idealists who forged the Revolution and the Nation State that claims to represent the good of the people but which has become completely corrupt and tyrannical in its attempt to justify itself.
	frenchfilms.topcities.com /nf_Danton_rev.html (555 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Danton at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Danton was born into the middleclass and was fond of drink and women.
		Danton led the effort to rid France of the monarchy altogether, forcing the legislative assembly to imprison King Louis XVI on August 10th, 1792.
		Danton's campaign leads to his arrest and political trial for treason, during which he uses his great skill as an orator and his popularity among the masses to incite opposition to Robespierre's leadership.
	www.epinions.com /content_176985640580 (2267 words)

	Danton
		Danton was said to be a notorious womanizer, despite his savage and ugly appearance, but there is little proof that he was anything but a devoted family man. The legend of his philandering may be yet another facet in the depiction of Danton as the "masculine" as opposed to the "feminine" asexuality of Robespierre.
		Danton showed an early interest in the Revolution, although not a deputy to either the Estates-General or the National Assembly, he became a local leader in his district, a captain in the National Guard and helped set up a political club that would become of utmost importance in the days to follow, the Cordeliers Club.
		Danton is one of the characters who tells the story and is portrayed as an affable, pragmatic, down-to-earth, masculine type of guy lacking in imagination and idealism but making up for it in ambition, shrewdness and common sense.
	www.angelfire.com /ca6/frenchrevolution89/danton.html (2407 words)

	Danton: can film represent complexity
		Main point: At first glance it seems clear that written history, as opposed to filmed history, is far superior as a means of representing the complexities of the past.
		Danton, as Julie, said does demonstrate from time to time that he is a "party animal," given to indulging his lower passions when the spirit moves him.
		The 1938 film, La Marseaillaise, tells the story of the Revolution from 1789 to 1792 and the comparison between it and "Danton" would be very illuminating.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /courses/rschwart/hist399/forum/messages/8.shtml (1026 words)

	Spirituality & Health: Movie Review: Danton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In 1793, Danton (Gerard Depardieu), one of the leading figures in the French Revolution, returns to Paris to halt the Reign of Terror initiated by his former colleague Robespierre (Wojciech Pszoniak).
		The robust, earthy and emotional Danton wants to end the bloodshed; the ascetic, intellectual and reserved Robespierre is convinced that eternal vigilance is the key to continued revolutionary success.
		Danton abounds with vivid vignettes: Robespierre's son memorizing the Declaration of Rights of Man; a private dinner Danton hosts for his adversary which dramatically portrays the character differences between the two; and the sham trial Danton and others are given by the revolutionary tribunal.
	www.spiritualityhealth.com /newsh/items/moviereview/item_6444.html (281 words)

	Danton, de Andrej Wajda, analyse du film : aspects politiques de la Pologne des années 1980 : Danton Walesa, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Danton trouve des appuis parmi les députés : Desmoulins, journaliste qui, dans son journal Le Vieux Cordelier, lance des attaques contre le gouvernement, Delacroix et Philippeaux.
		A travers les deux principaux personnages du film, Danton et Robespierre, il nous montre l'affrontement entre Walesa et Jaruzelski.
		Danton est montré bon vivant (il boit du vin pendant toute la séquence), affalé sur son siège.
	www.thucydide.com /realisations/voir/analyses/danton.htm (1319 words)

	Andrzej Wajda. Official Website of Polish movie director - Films - "Danton"
		Before we began filming in Paris, while "Solidarity" was still functioning in Poland, Gérard Depardieu came to Warsaw for one day to see the revolution, and especially, to see its leaders at the moment just before the collapse of their undertaking.
		I am under the impression that the film was conceived as a psychological study of the two characters.
		If the aim of this long film is to recreate only a few days, if in a film dedicated to the French Revolution we see only cabinet intrigues, personal rivalries, fanatic or terrorised politicians, mendacious or inspired speeches, it is done only to illustrate its main premise.
	www.wajda.pl /en/filmy/film25.html (868 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Polish director Andrej Wajda's film Danton is a masterpiece, albeit a flawed one.
		Danton is backed by Camille Desmoulins, a revolutionary journalist who was a hero for his role in the 1789 storming of the Bastille.
		The film captures the tension as it becomes clear a sharp and probably bloody clash between the two camps is looming.
	pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk /sr212/picture.htm (725 words)

	Amazon.com: Video: Danton (1982) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The filming, the costumes and the small parphenalia of everyday life that can be seen in the movie are all rich in authentic detail.
		Danton makes a moving argument, but in the end he, himself, is captured and executed.
		Danton in the other hand is a visceral mass leader given to enjoy very earthly pleasures, but nonetheless a compromised revolutionary.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0780021797?v=glance (1645 words)

	Whose Past is it, Anyway? Historians, Filmmakers, and the Definition of
		In ignoring film’s role as a secondary historical source that can reach a large audience with its interpretation of the past, historians are in fact turning a blind eye to their own subjectivity as makers of history while highlighting the subjectivity of directors as makers of film.
		His opinion of film as a kind of “true” social history is similar to that of French historian Marc Ferro, who argues that film offers a challenge to traditional history to be more inclusive and accessible.
		Of course, the audience for a John Sayles film is arguably closer to the audience for academic history than it is to the audience for Hollywood blockbusters.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /~ltdenaul/hist399 (5283 words)

	Biography for Andrzej Wajda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		He gained his greatest fame with the films Man of Marble (1976) and Man of Iron (1981), an epic examination of the clash between the individual and the state in postwar Poland that Wajda had wanted to make for years.
		Man of Iron won the Golden Palm Award at Cannes and was nominated for a Foreign Lan guage Film Oscar, but because of the government crackdown, Wajda went to France to make his next film, Danton (1982), which starred Gerard Depardieu in the title role and paralleled the political situations in Wajda's homeland.
		During the next years, Wajda dealt with the restrictive measures of his government-including the dissolving of his own film group, Studio X, in 1983-and continued to make films like A Love in Germany (1984) and The Possessed (1987) before the ultimate political turnaround of the Eastern Bloc countries.
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0906667/bio (710 words)

	AllRefer.com - Andrzej Wajda (Film, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Andrzej Wajda[An´jA vI´dA] Pronunciation Key, 1926–, Polish film director.
		His films are often studies of Poland's history and its recent or contemporary politics and often concentrate on the national yearning for freedom.
		Wajda, who is also a theater director, was active in Polish politics after the end of Communist rule, serving in the senate (1989–91) and as chairman of the nation's Cultural Council (1992–94).
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/W/Wajda-An.html (210 words)

	Ray Danton at Brian's Drive-In Theater
		Danton's character is not to be confused with B-movie actor John Howard, who starred as Bulldog Drummond in a series of films in the 1930s
		Danton and Julie Adams were married for more than 25 years and had two sons before calling it quits in 1981.
		Ray Danton plays the dashing Sandokan, a feared pirate who attempts to claim his rightful throne from an evil European who killed his family and now sits as ruler.
	www.briansdriveintheater.com /raydanton.html (1296 words)

	Danton and Robespierre Reading questions
		Danton: The French Revolution as Mirror of the Past and the Present
		Questions for comparing the accounts of Danton and Robespierre by J. Thompson (1929) and Mona Ozouf et al.
		Questions on the Film will be handed out on Wednesday.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /courses/rschwart/clio/Danton_questions.htm (255 words)

	channel4.com/film - Danton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Polish director (Ashes and Diamonds) Wajda's first French film after his Polish production company was shut down due to his support of Solidarity, looks and feels as if it was close to his own heart.
		Depardieu, in a role that fits him like a glove, plays the revolutionary leader Danton, who returns to Paris to appeal against mass executions instigated by Robespierre's reign of terror only to end up on trial for treason and heading for the guillotine himself.
		If ultimately the film lacks the immediacy of Wajda's earlier Polish work, the film-maker's sheer conviction about his material really has to be admired.
	www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=102555 (168 words)

	UCD US History: American Revolution to the French Revolution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Darnton discusses Danton's economic situation, then states that the Socialists in the government "had changed course and had adopted economic policies closer to those of Raymond Barre or Margaret Thatcher than to the radical program on which Mitterand had been elected.
		Its temporizing smacked of Dantonism, and the Communists began to snipe at it from the left, just as Robespierre had done when he attacked the moderates in the Convention." Darnton contextualizes the French reading of the film.
		Darnton's particular "reflections on cultural history" provokingly concludes, "Meaning itself is shaped by context." Wajda's film about Danton invites multiple interpretations, depending on a Warsaw or Paris context, of the "ghosts of Robespierre and Danton." We have been reading a survey of contrasting historiographical perspectives.
	carbon.cudenver.edu /~rpekarek/frev.html (1594 words)

	Danton: The Film and Questions
		In the central scene of the film, Danton and Robespierre meet in a hotel. What do you think is the point of showing other guests who are then hounded out? Based on your reading of Danton and Robespierre, does the meeting ring historically true?
		What is the point of having Madame Desmoulins go everywhere with her infant in arms? The Desmoulins are portrayed as being rather well off and probably had a servant or two to look after the baby.
		Some critiques claim that historical films reveal more about the period in which they were made than about the period they portray. To what extent do you think this is true of Danton?
	www.mtholyoke.edu /courses/rschwart/clio/danton_film-questions.htm (547 words)

	Danton Burroughs Family Album (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Danton Burroughs, grandson of Edgar Rice Burroughs, was born into a world-famous, wildly creative family.
		His father, John Coleman Burroughs, youngest of the three ERB children, began illustrating his father's novels in 1937, and eventually produced a total of over 125 illustrations for these books.
		Danton was raised in Tarzana, California, in a world created by his illustrious grandfather and talented parents -- a magical world of jungles, distant planets, exotic lands, and inner earths in which heroes and villains larger than life leapt from books, comics, film, radio and movies.
	www.erbzine.com /danton (795 words)

	Danton's Den: Tarzana Treasure Vaults
		But the motto has always been, "I still live!" -- and -- thanks largely to his efforts, the fictional characters and places created by his grandfather almost 100 years ago still live in the minds of millions of fans worldwide.
		Throughout his association with ERB, Inc., Danton has strived to make the Burroughs archives available to researchers, scholars, media personnel, and the countless fans who phone or even try to beat down the doors of the Burroughs offices on Ventura Boulevard.
		With the arrival of the new millennium Danton started to make much of the massive ERB archive accessible to the world by offering regular features on the Internet.
	www.tarzan.com /danton/intro.html (498 words)

	Principle characters in Danton. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		At the opening of the film his newspaper (propaganda sheet?) the Vieux Cordellier, calls for an end to the Terror and is closed down by henchmen of Robespierre.
		Fabre d'Eglantine--not really one of Danton's allies, but a corrupt politician place on trial with Danton and his associates to discredit them in the public eye.
		The film explores why they turned on each other, why "revolutions devour their children." See if you can figure this out.
	www.lander.edu /jcleland/GNED301/GNED%20fall%202001%20stuff/principle_characters_in_danton.htm (444 words)

	Danton (1983) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Being a Wajda fan, I was disappointed, and that may be an understatement.
		The film never really took cinematic flight -- there's no foundation for the animosity between Danton and Robespierre, etc.
		Klaus-Maria Brandauer is a much better Danton than Depardieu...the wonderful Andrzej Seweryn apparently took some notes from "Danton" and is BRILLIANT as Robespierre.
	us.imdb.com /title/tt0083789 (398 words)

	Links for film Danton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Background notes on the film and its Polish director.
		Some of this information you will not need, but notice background of director Andrzej Wajda and how the film relates to his experience with Communism (Leninism) in Poland.
		A list of the principle characters in the film.
	www.lander.edu /jcleland/GNED301/GNED%20fall%202001%20stuff/links_for_film_danton.htm (184 words)

	Psychic Killer Film Review - Time Out Film
		Ray Danton used to act in films just like this, and if not inspired, his handling of the grotesque is both sure-footed and fun.
		If you were registered for Time Out Film you would automatically see the cinemas near you showing this film.
		The annual Time Out Film Guide includes 15,000 films reviewed over the last 36 years by Time Out critics, covering every area of cinema: Hollywood mainstream and B-movie horrors, documentaries and avant garde, French, Far Eastern, classic silents and 1930s comedies.
	www.timeout.com /film/71534.html (282 words)

	Syllabus228
		I will collect weekly discussion worksheets for most of the semester and these will be factored into your participation grade.
		There are three films for this class and you will need to turn in a one-page response paper on each as indicated on the syllabus.
		Papers: You will write two papers during the semester: one short (3-5 pp.) based on the assigned readings and one longer (7-8 pp.) research paper based on a primary source (text, image) from the period.
	www.haverford.edu /hist/courses/syllabi/228b.html (826 words)

	Everything Depardieu -- Filmography
		(from imdb.com) Action opens in November of 1793, with Danton returning to Paris from his country retreat upon learning that the Committee for Public Safety, under Robespierre's incitement, has begun a series of massive executions, The Terror.
		Confident in the peoples' support, Danton clashes with his former ally, but calculating Robespierre soon rounds up Danton and his followers, tries them before a revolutionary tribunal and dipatches them to the guillotine.
		As Danton, Depardieu has a plum and well-suited role of a charismatic 'man of the people' and an ingenious orator.
	www.depardieu4.8m.com /films/1985-82/danton.html (305 words)

	Gary Westfahl's Bio-Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Film: Whit Bissell
		Acted in films: That Lady in Ermine (Ernst Lubitsch 1948); Lost Continent (Samuel Newfield 1951); Target Earth (Sherman A. Rose 1954); The Atomic Kid (Leslie MARTINSON 1954); Creature from the Black Lagoon (Jack ARNOLD 1954); Invasion of the Body Snatchers (uncredited) (Don SIEGEL 1956); I Was a Teenage Werewolf (Gene FOWLER, Jr.
		Whit Bissell functioned as a generic marker: if you saw his unforgettable face in the background of some film, you immediately knew that it was trash.
		And, with the gradual collapse of the conventional B-movie in the 1950s, and the corresponding rise of the science fiction B-movie, the trash that you saw him in was increasingly science-fictional.
	www.sfsite.com /gary/biss01.htm (493 words)

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