Saint-Just et la Force des choses/Saint-Just and the Force of Circumstances (Film 1975-ENG SUB)

Saint-Just et la Force des choses (Saint-Just and the Force of Circumstances, or Saint-Just and the Power of Things) is a French two-part dramatic television film (La Victoire and La Mort, both combined in one file) directed by Pierre Cardinal in 1974, broadcast in 1975, based on the eponymous historical work by Albert Ollivier. Audio in French with English subtitles.

One of the most intriguing and influential figures of the French Revolution, Saint-Just, a powerful figure in Robespierre's government, whom he greatly admired, was nicknamed the Archangel of Terror. From 1790 to 1794, Louis Antoine de Saint-Just reigned supreme, but in those turbulent times, the guillotine was never far away.

The film opens in 1790 in Blérancourt, a small village in Picardy, where the young and ardent Saint-Just dreams of going to Paris, to the heart of the revolutionary events, to continue his fight for the new ideas, alongside Robespierre, whom he admires. Elected in August 1792, at the Convention, he meets Robespierre and the Montagnards, and his talents as an orator and politician are quickly noticed by both the left and the right.

In a feverish succession of events, we witness the meteoric rise of Saint-Just to the pinnacle of power and his tragic fall. A strongman of the revolutionary government, a victorious commissioner to the armies, and a theorist of terror, author of the infamous Ventôse Decrees, but also of the indictments against the Hébertists and the Dantonists, Saint-Just died by guillotine on July 28, 1794, caught up in the fall of Robespierre.

Cast & Characters:
Patrice Alexsandre: Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
Pierre Vaneck: Maximilien de Robespierre
Hervé Sand: Georges Jacques Danton
Vicky Messica: Jean-Paul Marat
Fred Personne: Georges Couthon
Henri Marteau: Lazare Carnot
Jean-Pierre Bernard: Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac
André Dumas: Jacques Nicolas Billaud-Varenne
Henri Czarniak: Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois
Jacques Faber: Camille Desmoulins
Raymond Jourdan: Jacques-René Hébert
Jacques Lalande: Pierre Vergniaud
Maurice Vallier: Charles Jean Marie Barbaroux
Gérald Denizot: Marc-Guillaume-Alexis Vadier
Patrice Melennec: Officer