Saint-Just ou La force des choses (1975)
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Patrice Alexsandre, Pierre Vaneck, Hervé Sand, Jacques Faber, Dominique Erlanger, Gérard Hérold, Vicky Messica, Henry Czarniak, Marc Mazza, Raymond Jourdan, Fred Personne
In 1790, young Saint-Just dreams of leaving his village for Paris to pursue new ideas alongside the revolutionary Robespierre he admires.
The story
In 1790, in the Picardy village of Blérancourt, young Saint-Just dreams of going to Paris, where revolutionary events are unfolding. He hopes to continue his struggle for new ideas alongside Robespierre, whom he admires.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
The film opens in 1790 in Blérancourt, a small village in Picardy, where the young Saint-Just dreams of going to Paris, the heart of the revolutionary events, to continue his struggle for new ideas alongside Robespierre, whom he admires. Elected to the Convention in [year not specified], he meets up with Robespierre and the Mountain, and his talents as an orator and politician are quickly noticed by both the left and the right. In a feverish succession of events, Saint-Just’s dizzying rise to the pinnacle of power and his tragic fall unfold. A powerful figure in the revolutionary government, a victorious commissioner with the armies and a theorist of the Terror, author of the famous Ventôse decrees as well as the accusatory reports against the Hébertists and the Dantonists, Saint-Just is guillotined on [date not specified], swept up in Robespierre’s downfall.
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