The Marquis de Sade is locked in the Charenton mental hospital and decides to put on a play. His overseers agree as long as he follows certain conditions. He writes and directs the other mental patients in a play based on the life of the Jean-Paul Marat. As the play progresses, the inmates become more and more possessed by the violence of the play and become extremely difficult to control. Finally, all chaos breaks loose.

Starring:

Brenda Kempner, Clifford Rose, Freddie Jones, Glenda Jackson, Heather Canning, Henry Woolf, Hugh Sullivan, Ian Hogg, Ian Richardson, James Mellor, John Harwood, John Hussey, John Steiner, Jonathan Burn, Leon Lissek, Lynn Pinkney, Mark Jones, Mary Allen, Michael Farnsworth, Michael Percival, Michael Williams, Patrick Magee, Robert Langdon Lloyd, Sheila G

Genre:

Drama, Music