"FRITZ KORTNER in" "DANTON" "By misled financial politics France has fallen into economic chaos." "The King summons the Estates-General - the nobility, the clergy and the bourgeoisie." "The revolutionary bourgeoisie succeeds in seizing power in the National Assembly." "With the storming of the Bastille the revolution wins its first victory." "The King and the National Assembly are forced to move from Versailles to Paris." "The new movement's spiritual centre is the Jacobin Club." "Danton and Robespierre are the leaders in the fight for the idea of the revolution." "# ?" "[French revolutionary song]" "# ?" "# ?" "# ?" "# ?" "# ?" "excuse me" "# ?" "excuse me" "Citizen Marat" "Citizen Marat, I've been told that you're defending the little people" "I am entitled to a pension from the King of 100 francs and he doesn't pay anymore one should abolish him, that King what are you saying!" "abolish the King?" "what about my 100 francs?" " we're living through a revolution - yes I know but ... the King is being kept prisoner and has no longer the right to dispose of the State's revenue the people will pay out your 100 francs" " the people?" " yes, my friend the people because the King, the nobility, the court all those exploiters must disappear" "yes but ... excuse me the King has squandered away your money" "3.000 horses stand in the Royal stables 300 ceremonial carriages and the courtiers are numberless the palace at Versailles cost 3/4 billion singers, composers, dancers, interpreters heralds, printers and the priests a whole bunch of clerics" "You are starving, Citizens!" "but the Court has been living in luxury." "what's that man's name?" "remember the name, Citizen that's Danton" "Danton?" "he's quite right the King has eaten up all of France but the peasants and we small pensioners must starve" "The King is crying he is crying hot tears for the stupidities Marie Antoinette, his Austrian wife, made him do but finally he tells himself:" "what can happen to me?" "I am anointed by the Lord but as a precaution, I'll secure help from abroad he wanted to escape from his own France and go over to our enemies do you know what that's called?" "high treason!" "he was caught at the border like a criminal escaping the country" "Citizens, this King must disappear!" "so that you can live!" "a nation of grown-ups doesn't need a tutor!" "down with the King!" "down with the King!" "did Danton say that he's going to pay out the pensions?" "pensions?" "oh man!" "freedom is at stake shame on you if you haven't understood it yet" "I say, M. Robespierre now you've given up eating and drinking too you'll be losing all your forces" "this shirt is badly ironed now really, M. Robespierre but I can't keep a clear head these days my God!" "in times like these!" "especially in times like these one must keep a clear head please tell me the truth now what's going to happen?" "I don't sleep at night from worries if you paid more attention to your laundry than to the revolution ... you'll be able to sleep very soon" "will they put the King to trial?" "please answer me, M. Robespierre somebody knocked at the door" "what is it you wish, sir?" "I'd like to see M. Robespierre" "Citizen Robespierre doesn't receive aristocrats if you please" "M. Robespierre" "I am the Marquis of Saint-Just" "I have come to Paris to give away my inheritance to the Republic" "I only hope your inheritance isn't too deeply in debt, M. le Marquis if you please" "believe me there isn't a man in France whom I admire more than you" "a lot of aristocrats come to see me but I place myself entirely at your disposition" "I want to fight for Robespierre and for the Republic" "whatever shall be the outcome of today's session it'll be, I dare say decisive for the fate of France" " Danton demands the King's head" " I do." "but I'm telling you don't start the newly acquired freedom with a murder!" "very true one must pluck out the evil by the roots what kind of an office is it anyway?" "bestowed upon one by the chance of birth and can be administered by any idiot but Danton, here in the Jacobin Club there are only Republicans" "I hope so we're not debating France's form of government we're dealing with the personal fate of the King whether banishment or execution" "I'm in favour of banishment we have nothing to fear from Louis Capet where self-defense ends, murder begins that's not true the social revolution isn't finished yet and the high society isn't dead yet very true" "the people's healthy force must be ... eh - what?" "tell us must put itself in the place of that worn-out society and that's why I'm saying" "Louis Capet to the guillotine very true" "but you can't leave now, Danton" "I'll end up convincing them anyway, but I'm fed up with all that talk" "Beware of murder!" "I'm warning you!" "Look, there's somebody coming perhaps he'll let you have the 100 francs but that's Citizen Danton, I know him" " Citizen Danton, I have a great favour to ..." " I'm at your disposition good day, kids how are you?" "fine, thank you" " I'd like to ..." " a half of Burgundy wine two glasses it's been a long time since we've had the pleasure but I'm busy day and night careful!" "not as you think" " yes please" " I wanted to ... you've put on weight that comes from ..." "I am entitled to 100 francs from the King tell me, what exactly do you want to do with those 100 francs?" "only because I'm deeply worried about our common cause" "I must tell you again and again the revolution will be in danger if Louis Capet's head falls." "The monarchs of all Europe will unite to take revenge on France." "you're right about this, Robespierre the despots will unite even closer whereas we are quarrelling for nights let's avoid all partition what if our motion isn't accepted in the Convention don't worry" "Danton will arrange that" "Robespierre is the only one among us still protecting Louis Capet if we can't agree in this matter too you'll be depriving the revolution of its driving force" "you'll remember my words but ... for the sake of our good cause" "I'll speak in favour of your case at the Convention bravo, Robespierre" "down with the King" "and what do I get out of it?" "all the people do is make a big noise and I won't get my 100 francs" "there's Desmoulins that scribbler for the newspapers they're the worst" "Long live Desmoulins silence silence for Desmoulins" "Camille Desmoulins silence" "Citizens" "I've run across the whole town and I've called the people to take up arms everywhere" "the revolution is on the march!" "it's on the march, and nobody can stop us" "Desmoulins" "and now we'll have a look at the good King we'll march through the streets and shake up everybody from their slumber" "Halt!" "Louis Capet" " Versailles let's march to Versailles!" "# to Versailles" "# ?" "# ?" "# ?" "this is a fine state of affairs here in Paris a scandal!" "excuse me, gentlemen" " I just wanted to ..." " leave us in peace, will you what swinish business must we sit and watch those beasts destroying everything that's sacred to us?" "they may take away all our rights they may lock all the churches they may even abolish religion but they cannot send God to the guillotine" "ah, the gentlemen of the guard how weird it looks in here" "like a museum well now we'll have a look at the good King" "come in, everybody come in" "well, it's beautiful in here, isn't it" "I'd like to live here myself to the King!" "# to the King, to the King" "# ?" "# ?" "# ?" "Louis Capet" "# ?" "Louis Capet" "# ?" "# ?" "Louis Capet you're addressing your King!" "you lout!" "do you know what you are?" "a nothing a piece of dirt that's right you scoundrel!" "my son died because of you yes, our sons one year!" "we've reached the limit of our patience!" "you ..." "Legendre leave him go now." "The King must come to the Convention" "Convention!" "go away!" "Convention!" "Sire don't fear anything" "I am not afraid" "I have received the holy sacrament now they can do with me what they will" "Long live the King!" "silence!" "silence!" "Louis Capet you may sit down" "Citizens" "In view of this trial's exhaustive length, the Jacobin Club, in order to come finally to a decision, after extensive examination of facts of the case, has voted unanimously to demand the death penalty for Louis Capet." "The people must now give an answer to this motion and proclaim their will through their representatives." "So let's proceed with the debate." "Citizen Louis Capet's defending counsel, the lawyer Malesherbes has the floor." "I humbly ask Your Majesty's permission to speak." "The Convention is a political institution and has no authority for judicial proceedings, nor authority for a trial against His Majesty the King." "The monarch's sacred person is answerable only to God, not to a worldly court of law." "Be reasonable!" "Free yourselves of your sentimentalities" "Use your common sense." "It is a good, a sharp tool." "look at it carefully and it'll cut Louis Capet's neck without fail." "bravo, Saint-Just" "Louis Capet you may speak now" "France wanted a constitution." "I gave it to France." "Paris wanted me to live in its midst." "I came to Paris." "Danton asked for my head." "I had the right to flee and to ask my brothers on the thrones of Europe to protect France from ... the ignominy of regicide." "if a man is about to have his head cut off then he was the right to flee." "yes, and he has such pretty little children." "Frenchmen!" "it is high time for us to declare war against our inner enemy and prove that the National Convention is the only and the highest court of justice in France." "very true the old aristocracy is again raising its head" "and many among you don't even notice it" "Viva!" "Gironde!" "but we do notice it!" "in a republic only republicans can be citizens." "At a time when the counter-revolution is being openly advocated, when the former King of France betrays his fatherland to the enemy by paying enemy mercenary soldiers out of his own pocket, meaning, out of our own pockets," "Proof!" "Proof?" "here is proof establishing without doubt the high treason committed by Louis Capet." "documents found in a secret cabinet of His Majesty, despite his hypocritical affirmations." "and therefore I declare that the man who has the effrontery to speak for the counter-revolution, for the aristocracy, for the King must fall." "And I demand that the Convention prove to the world, but first of all to the French people that it wants to keep the liberty acquired with its blood, and that it has decided that all the enemies of the fatherland and of the republic" "must be crushed!" "well?" "do you still like that Danton?" "a relentless adversary but the way he speaks is entrancing." "Long live the King!" "drinker of blood!" "infamous slanderer!" "so what, Camille?" "let them insult my name if only the fatherland will be free drinker of blood?" "very well so be it if we must ... let's drink the blood of all the enemies of humankind." "Fulfill your duty!" "Let's follow the storm tide of freedom!" "Making a revolution means being bold." "We must be bold, bold, and again bold!" "Punishing the ?" "of mankind is a beneficence." "To forgive them is barbarism." "And thus I accuse Louis Capet, formerly King of the Frenchmen, of treason of the fatherland, counter-revolution, and high treason." "And thus I demand in the name of all patriots, in the name of the blood of French citizens, which he criminally shed, the death penalty." "bravo" "down with the King send Louis Capet to the guillotine" "so it's war against Spain the seventh declaration of war, General yes" "the King of Prussia the Emperor of Austria the Pope" "Spain" "Portugal" " and ..." " Naples" "Naples yes we don't have any reserves then we'll have to draft the 18-year olds, General" "Danton" "Danton will have to do it" "not I" "oh well war against the whole world" "28, 29, 30 we can thank the Monarchy for that that Robespierre is such a cunning fox the way he allowed himself be shouted down by Danton, I don't get it you can count on it, Danton knows what he's doing" "they even have music in here they couldn't live any better at home yes, those aristocrats" "yes, those aristocrats" "will Danton be visiting you again?" "I don't know don't you notice that people are avoiding you, Louise?" "I'm afraid, my friend, that I've fallen in love with that man." "and still, I'm telling you kids, out there it doesn't look good hundreds of thousands of allies and only 30.000 on our side only a fool would let himself be sent out there" "silent." "Danton" "another visit to the little Countess he even finds time for that" "don't you notice?" "what?" "you mustn't come and see me so often why?" "my friends ..." "I see" "and you can say what you like he only comes here in order to ... to look at that silly face of yours" "have you got it?" "go on order of the Welfare Committee every general who lets himself get defeated in the field will be accused of high treason" "General Dumouriez will you get the high command?" "those in there want Danton no, not I send Dumouriez to the front" "I am tired" "I need a rest and I'm not a soldier anyway" "At the head of the army must be placed a man who has acquired uncontested merits, and not just a friendship with yourself." "Dumouriez is the best officer we have" "And who will answer for his loyalty?" "I will" "What do we know about war?" "nothing but I know something about human character" "this time you're wrong, Robespierre so?" "you insist on Dumouriez?" "yes very well and the consequences?" "on my head" "what do you want?" "I've been ordered to the homeland and I'm to report to you, Citizen Danton why?" "the Minister of War claims that I'm not fit for field duty" "the Minister of War is a fool you'll go to the front of course what's your name?" "Lieutenant Bonaparte" "Bonaparte" "I'll make a note" "Community of Paris - proclamation 1." "Each man caught on the street after 12 o'clock will be shot." "2." "All food will be rationed." "3." "As of today, no liquor will be served." "4." "The prostitutes are under penalty of death prohibited to appear in all public places, streets and cafés." "4." "The prostitutes are under penalty of death prohibited to appear in all public places, streets and cafés." "The Welfare Committee." "Robespierre" "That Robespierre will turn Paris into a penitentiary camp." "I'm telling you:" "First they abolish indecent behaviour and in the end all our freedom." "The prostitutes are prohibited to appear in all public places what will our good Danton do now, I wonder?" "shh. careful!" "won't you at least tell me where I am?" "don't act as if you didn't know you know where you are" "where am I?" "Citizen" "Paris is threatened by the enemy and Danton has nothing better to do than abduct aristocratic ladies from prison nothing else to do?" "when a revolutionary behaves in a way like Danton then I'm in favour to accuse him publicly" "he'll be here any minute he couldn't possibly miss out this important session he'll know how to justify himself" "she's downstairs you must go to the Commune what did she say?" "she wanted to get away away?" "and you?" "I locked the door" "but the Commune!" "I hate you" "I'm telling you he's fed up with the revolution very true by tomorrow he might even be against us are we going to wait any longer?" "no" "I propose to deliberate without him" " let's put it to vote. who agrees?" " I do" " Me too - but he could at any moment ... so?" "let's begin but Danton ... how dare you!" "of course" "I didn't expect anything else from the like of you but now I'm telling you for the last time, let me ... what's the matter?" "Desmoulins we've waited for you" "what are you up to?" "they've made important decisions without you, you must come to the session at once ah, the session" "Desmoulins" "I'll get married" " married?" " yes, come in" "I'll present you no, I must go back to the session" "you'll lose your friends through me" "I love you [*dich]" "you've taken away from me everything dear to me" "but I couldn't ..." "I couldn't ... let's not justify ourselves right now let's forget for a while ... where we came from." "Robespierre" "Danton is still indispensable to us" "I know but we must keep an eye on him" "the air itself carries me news of his doings and sayings" "Danton has turned a gentleman he doesn't belong to the people anymore" "Paris is starving, and Danton is celebrating his wedding but the bride is beautiful" "by all means" "where's Robespierre?" "he refused" "and Saint-Just?" "he too and Marat too" "thank you" "Camille" "Camille silence" "Camille # who has only debts and no income?" "# who who who # who has more creditors than shirts?" "# who who who # who is in debts up to his ears?" "# who lost his reputation first?" "# who who who # the lawyer Danton # the lawyer Danton" "he lets himself be toasted among the aristocrats?" "Danton has become a renegade what was that?" "play on # who started the fight against Louis?" "# who who who # who won the trial for humankind?" "# who who who # who created the flag for liberty?" "# who called us citizens, who gave us arms?" "# who who who # the citizen Danton # the citizen Danton" "it surely wasn't our fault if we had to retreat but nobody knows which side General Dumouriez is really on tell them what everybody at the front knows anyway" "Dumouriez is betraying us" "where's Danton?" "yes, where's Danton?" "he's celebrating his wedding and honeymoon wasn't it Danton who gave Dumouriez the high command?" "yes we shall hold him responsible for this this won't help us send him out to the front he's the only one who can restore order out there" "I'm terribly sorry to keep you waiting for such a long time but my husband must be here any moment" "you're from Arras, aren't you?" "yes" "and you too were a lawyer, like my husband?" "yes" "you're married, aren't you, M. Robespierre?" "No." "Louise there's my husband excuse me a moment" " listen" " I'm hungry listen, Robespierre is here" "Robespierre?" "he's the most wooden person I've ever seen" "why do you want to send me away from Paris, by the way?" "be honest, Robespierre honest?" "you're using that word with me?" "that Dumouriez of yours has not only been beaten." "he's also formed an alliance with the enemies in order to overthrow the Republic." "thank you very much that swine!" "I suggest you proceed to the front at once" "then let's go you're leaving?" "to the front?" "what do you want of him?" "why don't you leave him in peace!" "just go on scolding" "well, gentlemen" "I recapitulate we'll march on Paris arrest the revolutionaries free Her Maj ... free Her Majesty the Queen and have the Dauphin proclaimed King of France and you'll place the French troops under our High Command the Duke of Coburg" "yes" "good day, Danton" "General Dumouriez has come to an agreement with us to put an end to the anarchy in Paris there's no other choice the Republic must fall so that France can live gentlemen of the Austrian Army" "General Dumouriez has been acting without power of attorney." "Therefore I, as representative of the French Republic, will take charge of the negotiations." "Take me to the Duke of Coburg." " but Danton ..." " yes, Dumouriez?" "please, gentlemen" "murder!" "murder!" "murder!" "Marat!" "Marat!" "murdered!" "murdered!" "Marat!" "Marat!" "murdered!" "Marat has been murdered!" "Marat?" "Murdered?" "When?" "Who murdered him?" "Your Imperial Highness, I announce the Minister Danton who will take over in the negotiations with France." "well now I'm curious" "my letter of accreditation" "Your Ducal Highness" "please have a seat, Minister ..." "Danton" "your army has been beaten and nothing can stop our advance" " tell me, my dear ..." " von Strackwitz when will our soldiers put up camp in Paris?" "in six weeks at the latest, Your Ducal Highness and you're asking us to go home?" "what do you have to offer?" "nothing." "if you march into France, if you occupy Paris, you'll bring back to Germany as many revolutionaries as you've led soldiers into the field." "our idea is invincible" "Your Ducal Highness" "farewell, Marat" "you were a good fighter in the history of freedom your name will live forever but for us your heinous murder shall be the signal to act against the revolution's enemies with all necessary means." "from this hour there will be no more mercy" "that they'll turn our soldiers into revolutionaries in Paris that's probably wishful thinking of the Frenchmen" "Back in our Germany, revolution isn't allowed at all." "Nobody in Germany even knows what revolution means." "you're wrong there, gentlemen my office obliges me to study the revolutionary literature published abroad and I recently read this phrase by a great German poet his name is ... eh" " he means Kotzebue - no no" "Goethe?" "no, he neither" "Schiller!" "yes, Schiller he lets his hero speak the following phrase:" "yes?" ""put me in front of a few fellows, like myself"" ""and I'll turn Germany into"" "Germany!" " "into a Republic."" " A Republic!" "what's that man's name?" "Schiller" "I'll forbid him!" "your murder, Marat, means the signal for the attack on the life of the Republic." "here at your coffin" "I demand for the protection of liberty the terror!" "to the guillotine with all Royalists!" "I've conceded everything, Your Highness which I could justify before my conscience, before my office the Royalist will be pardoned under the conditions agreed between us but Marie Antoinette?" "there is no "but"" "if you say "no", I'll order the march on Paris" "Thus France will guarantee the life of her Queen by her Minister's signature" "Danton" "?" "it's alright" "hunger hunger in the Vendée hunger in the Vendée hunger" "Robespierre the trial against Marie Antoinette is over the Convention has passed the death sentence so no more delay, Robespierre!" "sign it" "let us execute the people's will" "16 Thermidor, year 2 Marie Antoinette, the widow Capet will be executed at 12.30" "Danton" "I had no other choice either France would have perished, or the Republic" "I'm a soldier" "I am closer to France than to the revolution" "I'll speak in the Convention there will be patriots who won't understand me" "I must spare the Republic such a trial for high treason" "coachman halt!" "what do you say to this, Desmoulins?" "Danton returns as saviour of the Republic?" "he returns as her grave digger" "Danton as grave digger?" "Danton's treaty means the betrayal of our idea he imagines he has saved Marie Antoinette's head he'd better take care of his own exactly ever since he's married that aristocrat" "I feel deep mistrust towards him" "the gentleman outside doesn't want to wait any longer let Citizen Sanson come in yes please" "good day good day, gentlemen" "a thousand pardons if I am interrupting but I have an enormous amount of work to do these days" "I've had to take in 17 assistants well ... the people of Paris want flawless spectacles" "but gentlemen if the state doesn't take over my business" "I'll go bankrupt" "I'll speak in favour of your application, master a thousand thanks good-bye good-bye you see, today we're performing on five different squares at the same time" "who was that?" "that was Sanson the executioner of Paris" "Danton!" "good day" "Danton good day" "a warm welcome" "I'm bringing you peace so?" "ask your questions we'll ask our questions" "but not here" "and I put that ridiculous fellow in office myself!" "a pity that you came so late." "the guillotine doesn't stand still these days" " Marie Antoinette?" " Yes." "executed?" "and now the enemy will take Paris and strangle the revolution" "strangle our revolution!" "do you prefer this to my peace treaty with some concessions yes!" "there is nothing but the idea!" "each concession means treason!" "the more of us dying for the idea ... the stronger and more secure it will live." "that's only theory, Robespierre the idea can only live with us no bridge remains standing between us a pity a pity for France yes yes a pity for France" "Robespierre?" "what have you been doing to liberty?" "just remember, you used to be against the death penalty, and today ... your only wisdom is the guillotine if one of you will destroy the other at this moment, everything will be lost" "Robespierre make your peace with Danton" "invite him to your home tonight" "I'll be there perhaps I'll manage to convince him" "I struck them down the King and the aristocrats was that murder?" "no that was war against the interior am I to curse my own hand upon which fell the curse of necessity?" " you have saved the fatherland with it - haven't I, Camille?" "it was self-defense" "I had to ... not on the guillotine don't!" "I was a good, a good ... a true hero" "this is murder" " that's Robespierre's idea - yes yes but you must come to an understanding with him tonight understanding?" "with Robespierre?" "Robespierre is keeping us waiting where is he?" "I don't know forget what they did to you he wants to make peace with you that's what I came here for don't push him away" "Robespierre" "I am glad that you've forgotten your resentment against me let's drink to an honest peace long live Robespierre long live Danton" "drink, Robespierre, believe me ..." "I'm a good Republican but there are other things too than the revolution's catechism not when the revolution is in danger she's always in danger" "not very reassuring for us women" "I'd be so glad if... if one doesn't live like you do dry, sober without love then one is already an aristocrat" "I'd be so glad if you two ... the way you, under the sign of death ... we're saving the fatherland with the power of terror and the world must fear the guillotine of France yes yes I understand" "you want to lure me" "I am to help you to befuddle the peoples' minds with bloodthirsty frenzy and for what purpose?" "I'll tell you" "Danton!" "I warn you!" "I implore you!" "Danton!" "oh, you!" "you want nothing but a dictatorship the dictatorship, yes!" "the dictatorship of the idea!" "the dictatorship of the guillotine!" "if it must be, that too, the dictatorship of the guillotine you taught the revolution to swallow up her own children" "Danton, don't accuse" "I must accuse, I must accuse the murder and why shouldn't I accuse?" "because in fact, you should defend yourself drop those phrases!" "your hate won't rest as long as I'm alive" "you've never understood what really matters to me" "Camille" "Danton" "come" "so Robespierre wants to send us to the guillotine?" "the people of Paris don't love you anymore yes yes Danton" "we must flee where?" "Can you carry the fatherland with you, stuck to the soles of your shoes?" "Danton" "Danton" "Danton" "Danton you're lying down sleeping they've decided your death in the Convention" "leave me alone they're on their way to take you" "I've come to the end of my road let them send me to the guillotine" "I won't send anybody to the guillotine anymore" "defend yourself!" "you speak to them your word has always been victorious" "I am so tired" "at the trial against the King then you weren't tired" "when they sent you to the army, you weren't tired and now ... what about me?" "I'll defend myself" "I'll speak once more" "and the world shall listen." "your name?" "Georges Jacques Danton 34 years old" "your profession revolutionary and representative of the people your residence?" "well my residence?" "very soon in the void his residence?" "in the pantheon of history" "Danton the National Convention accuses you to have aided and abetted the traitor Dumouriez, to have concealed his real character and to have agreed with his plans to murder freedom, plans by which he intended to ... to march on Paris with armed forces," "to throw down the Republican government and to reinstate the monarchy." "Besides, it was the Citizen Danton who in concert with the enemy abroad wanted to prevent the execution of the death penalty against Marie Antoinette." "Accused as co-perpetrator is Camille Desmoulins." "my voice which has rung out before so often for the people's cause will easily refute those slanders" "Danton this daring only shows your criminal past private daring is condemnable, no doubt but national daring of which I have give proof in the past on several occasions that kind of daring is permitted, it is even necessary" "in a revolution they say that I have been sold?" "men of my calibre cannot be bought!" " well, then ..." " bravo, he's right they say that I have conspired with Dumouriez?" "I am ..." "I am ..." "I am... you miserable Saint-Just you'll have to justify yourself before posterity those slanders" "I am to account for my actions before your incorruptible, your unfaltering justice?" "where is Robespierre?" "if he appears here I shall undertake it to carry my head personally to the guillotine or to prove, that your own heads must roll at the people's feet." "silence in the name of the Republic respect before the Convention" "the accused will be removed from court and his trial will continue in his absence this is dictatorship" "I am walking on our own corpses" "I am accusing Robespierre" "Saint-Just of high treason they want to drown the Republic in blood you want bread and they throw heads at you" "don't you hear the bell?" "the voice of a man fighting for his honour and his life must out-cry such a bell" "in September, I have fed the young spawn of the revolution with the cut-up limbs of the aristocrats my voice has forged arms for the people from the gold of the rich and the aristocrats" "my voice [?" ") has buried despotism under the waves of the bayonets" "Murderer!" "?" "long live liberty long live the revolution" "we can't hold back the people they want to free Danton what shall we do?" "tell the people food has arrived from overseas it's lying in the harbour but has food really arrived?" "no but tell them anyway telling them anything doesn't help anymore." "we must act then the Convention shall the cleared and the judgment shall be read out before an empty house" "the death penalty" "I have spoken so often against the death penalty that must have been a long time ago the enemies of the revolution forced the weapon into my hands it's either them or I" "where lies the guilt?" "why don't you look at me, Cornelia?" "I am afraid for Danton?" "no for Robespierre" "I'll perish over this affair" "but France shall live" "this is tomorrow's list how many are they?" "1 2 3 4 5 6, 7" "8, 9 and then I need some more soldiers for tomorrow" "Danton has always had a big crowd for his public" " it'll be done - very well" "who started the fight against Louis?" "who?" "who?" "who?" "who won the trial for mankind?" "who?" "who cares now?" "let the flood of the revolution carry away our corpses to any place" "to die?" "no, that mustn't happen!" "no!" "I want to scream so that everybody will stop and be frightened so that everything will stand still so that nothing will move" "excuse me, M. Robespierre but ..." "Marat is dead the King is dead and Danton soon will be ... and they told me ..." "I am to address myself to you it's about the 100 francs" "with my last breath I cry out:" "long live liberty" "subtitles: serdar202"