Start the Revolution Without Me (1970)

Directed by

Bud Yorkin

Genre

comedy, history

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 30m

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 46 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two peasants get mixed up with lookalike noblemen during the French Revolution. Mistaken identity leads to a series of farcical events.

comedicchaoticlightheartedparodicslapstickfast-pacedquirky

What happens

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). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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