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.
Patrick Magee
as Marquis de Sade
Ian Richardson
as Jean-Paul Marat
Michael Williams
as Herald
Clifford Rose
as Monsieur Coulmier
Glenda Jackson
as Charlotte Corday
Freddie Jones
as Cucurucu
Hugh Sullivan
as Kokol
John Hussey
as Newly Rich Lady
William Morgan Sheppard
as A Mad Animal
Jonathan Burn
as Polpoch
Jeanette Landis
as Rossignol
Robert Langdon Lloyd
as Jacques Roux (as Robert Lloyd)
