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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.
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Patrick MageeMarquis de Sade -
Ian RichardsonJean-Paul Marat -
Michael WilliamsHerald -
Clifford RoseMonsieur Coulmier -
Glenda JacksonCharlotte Corday -
Freddie JonesCucurucu -
Hugh SullivanKokol -
John HusseyNewly Rich Lady -
William Morgan SheppardA Mad Animal -
Jonathan BurnPolpoch -
Jeanette LandisRossignol
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Robert Langdon LloydJacques Roux (as Robert Lloyd) -
John SteinerMonsieur Dupere -
James MellorSchoolmaster
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Henry WoolfFather -
John HarwoodVoltaire
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Leon LissekLavoisier -
Susan WilliamsonSimone Evrard
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Carol RaymontPatient
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Mary AllenPatient
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