--- title: 'Start the Revolution Without Me (1970)' type: 'film' director: 'Bud Yorkin' released: '1970-02-04' runtime_minutes: 90 countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/start-the-revolution-without-me-1970' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066402/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Start the Revolution Without Me (1970) 1970 · 90 min · United States ## Synopsis Start the Revolution Without Me is a 1970 American period comedy film directed by Bud Yorkin, and starring Gene Wilder, Donald Sutherland, Hugh Griffith, Jack MacGowran, Billie Whitelaw, Orson Welles 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). ## Credits - **Director:** [Bud Yorkin](https://cinepixo.com/people/bud-yorkin) - **Producer:** [Bud Yorkin](https://cinepixo.com/people/bud-yorkin) - **Original Music Composer:** [John Addison](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-addison) ## Cast - [Donald Sutherland](https://cinepixo.com/people/donald-sutherland) - [Orson Welles](https://cinepixo.com/people/orson-welles) - [Graham Stark](https://cinepixo.com/people/graham-stark) - [Victor Spinetti](https://cinepixo.com/people/victor-spinetti) - [Murray Melvin](https://cinepixo.com/people/murray-melvin) - [Harry Fowler](https://cinepixo.com/people/harry-fowler) - [Jacques Maury](https://cinepixo.com/people/jacques-maury-2) - [Walker Edmiston](https://cinepixo.com/people/walker-edmiston) - [Helen Fraser](https://cinepixo.com/people/helen-fraser) - [Hugh Griffith](https://cinepixo.com/people/hugh-griffith) - [Gene Wilder](https://cinepixo.com/people/gene-wilder) - [Ewa Aulin](https://cinepixo.com/people/ewa-aulin) - [Jack MacGowran](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-macgowran) - [Billie Whitelaw](https://cinepixo.com/people/billie-whitelaw) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/start-the-revolution-without-me-1970 Film facts: Wikidata (Q2405658); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.