Start the Revolution Without Me

Based On the book by Alexandre Dumas

Start the Revolution Without Me is a 1970 British-French-American period comedy film directed by Bud Yorkin, and starring Gene Wilder, Donald Sutherland, Hugh Griffith, Jack MacGowran, Billie Whitelaw, Orson Welles (playing himself as narrator) and Victor Spinetti. The film is set in revolutionary France where two peasants are mistaken for the famous Corsican Brothers. The film is considered a parody of a number of works of historical fiction about the French Revolution and French history in general, including A Tale of Two Cities (1859) by Charles Dickens and two works by Alexandre Dumas, The Corsican Brothers (1844) and The Man in the Iron Mask (1847).

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Release date:

February 4, 1970

Director:

Bud Yorkin

Cast:

Gene Wilder, Hugh Griffith, Jack MacGowran, Billie Whitelaw

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Year page:

1970 in adaptations