Movies Where Protagonist is Regretful after the Revolution

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There’s many movies about revolutions, from practically any country… I’m looking for a movie where the protagonist (who supported the revolution, maybe even fought) is regretful after the revolution, for whatever reason. Maybe what they fought for didn’t come to fruition, or too slowly, or maybe the character has changed. Also, I don’t necessarily mean the protagonist wants to go back to the colonizer, but it could be.

Hell, it would be interesting seeing an American movie like this. A guy who fights to get rid of the English, and later thinks, “We should have stayed with the British”

“After the Curfew”
Director: Usmar Ismail

(Indonesia… becoming independent from the Dutch)

https://youtu.be/69s4MWXpw8Y

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If you want one that’s a little out of left field, there’s Massacre at Central High (1976).

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Let’s stick Bananas in here (speech by El Presidente, just after the revolution). El Presidente - YouTube

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Although Start the Revolution Without Me is a comedy about the French revolution, it ends with the heroes realizing that things went wrong.

Speaking of the French Revolution, the play/movie The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade has the play within a play. set in 1809, relate de Sade’s unhappiness over his role in the revolution and his former support of Marat.

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In the Hunger Games series Katniss started to resent supporting the revolution when she could see the leader of the revolution wanted to be another dictator.

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Another example from the stage: Caryl Churchill’s Light Shining in Buckinghamshire.

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I think a fair number of idealists in the West were thoroughly disillusioned as a result of the Russian Revolution. Anyone think of any movies which reflect this?

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Not Westerners, but Burnt by the Sun is about a prestigious Russian revolutionary and later Red Army colonel who is caught up in the purges.

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It’s not a movie, but Isaac Asimov’s short story “The Dead Past” would seem to fit the idea.

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The French Revolution - It’s a 6 hour long epic that runs all the way through the Reign of Terror. It’s probably safe to interpret Robespierre as being regretful when he is being led to the guillotine.

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TV Tropes “Full-Circle Revolution” has quite a few examples of this: