Felix Bernstein

“Who is more powerful: the one who calls another a dictator with impunity or the one so-called?”— Saint-Just (Andress, 375) During the two and a half hour stretch of Andrzej Wajda’s 1983 historic drama Danton, we watch Robespierre degenerate from a composed, well-dressed statesman, arguing on behalf of Enlightenment ideals into a megalomaniac, who would…