Andrea Chenier: the Feature Film Opera

The poet Andrea Chenier and the servant Carlo Gerard both love the young and beautiful aristocrat Maddalena. When Maddalena loses everything in the French Revolution, Chenier offers her protection, and so incites the envy of Gerard, now a powerful and scary official. Chenier is arrested during the Terror. Gerard, spurred by his jealousy, condemns him. Maddalena makes a desperate appeal, and Gerard tries, too late, to defend Chenier. Gerard helps Maddalena to join Chenier in prison, and the lovers face the guillotine together.