Danton, 1921, silent film, dir by Buchowetski, based on Danton's Death, play by Georg Buchner, 1835

From 'Romanticism, In Search of a Definition', Isiah Berlin (also on youtube), at 30.51: "... Here there is a collision, perhaps an unavoidable collision, between sets of values which are literally incompatible. Previous generations supposed that all good things could in some way be reconciled, this is true no longer. If you read Buchner's tragedy 'the Death of Danton', in which Robespierre finally causes the death of Danton and Desmoulins in the course of the revolution, and you ask 'was Robespierre wrong to do this?' No. The tragedy is such that Danton, although he was a sincere revolutionary who committed certain errors didn't deserve to die and Robespierre was perfectly right to put him to death. In some sense you have a collision here of what Hegel afterwards called 'good with good'. It isn't due to error, it's due to some kind of collision or conflict, of an unavoidable kind, of loose elements wandering about the earth, in some way. Of values which couldn't in some sense be reconciled. And what matters is the people should dedicate themselves to these values with all that is in them, and if they do that then they are suitable heroes for tragedy. If they do not do that then they are philistines, then they are members of the bourgeois, then they're no good and not worth writing about..."