Marat/Sade: Film Screening
Friday, November 21, 2025 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm CET/GMT+1Lecture Hall (P98a)
The French Revolution seminar cordially invites you to a screening of MARAT/SADE (1967) dir. Peter Brook. The screening will be introduced by Florian Becker.
Set in 1808, Peter Weiss' play 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 takes place in an insane asylum, where the in/famous Marquis de Sade casts fellow inmates as actors in a play staging the murder of Jean-Paul Marat in 1793 that paves the way to chaos and terror. Radically experimental, this filmed play-within-a-play blurs the lines between performance and reality, sanity and madness, freedom and repression, ideology and desire, thus drawing viewers into the experience of the Revolution's whirlwind.
Reception will follow.
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