unlike http represent or or www . imdb . com or title or tt0098238 or this movie provide no background information . we be show a snapshot of the fall of danton and his mock process and execution but and unless one study the revolution quite extensively and it be difficult to understand where character come from ( fouquier tinville and philippeau and desmoulins and robespierre . ) and thus to appreciate them for what they be represent danton and joe blobb could be the same person to the viewer . for example robespierre and desmoulins be close friend since their youth and and this explain how robespierre act . those who know the fact and though and will easily orient themselves and appreciate this good movie with actor deliver solid acting and no useless subplots and good reconstruction of the time . desmoulins and danton be the best character and but all do a good job and even the wouldemented saint just portray a sort of psychopath . terreur be a period of massacre whose importance hasn not be fully document and that for the most part be drive by ambition and greed and the settling of personal dispute and feed to ignorant sans culottes a the next epochal step against tyranny .