The Young Karl Marx (2017)
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Country:
France, Belgium, Germany
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Duration:
118 min
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Genre:
drama, biography
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Director:
Raoul Peck
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Producer:
Raoul Peck
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Cast:
August Diehl, Stefan Konarske, Olivier Gourmet, Hannah Steele, Alexander
About film
Karl Marx is 26, and together with his wife Jenny they begin their life in exile. In 1844 in Paris the couple meets a young son of textile factories owner, Friedrich Engels, who studies the history of the development of the English proletariat. Stylish Engels reveals to Karl Marx the missing piece of the latter's new vision of the world. Surrounded by censorship and police raids, riots, and political upheavals, together they will preside over the organizing of the labor movement, which until then had been mostly improvised and structureless. As time passes, the movement will grow into an all-encompassing theoretical and practical transformation of the world since the Renaissance, unexpectedly propelled by two brilliant, insolent, and sharp-witted young men from good families.
Rewards and nominations
- Traverse City Film Festival 2017 (USA) — Grand Prize
- Berlinale Special Gala 2017
Director
67-year-old Haitian film director, screenwriter, journalist, and political activist. He studied in the USA and in France. Peck worked as a taxi driver, a journalist, and a photographer. He graduated from the German Film and Television Academy Berlin in West Berlin. Peck's second feature film The Man by the Shore was in competition at the Cannes Film Festival. His film I Am Not Your Negro premiered at the Berlinale Panorama in 2017. In 2017 Peck filmed The Young Karl Marx about the friendship between a Jewish revolutionary Karl Marx and a German philosopher Friedrich Engels.
Along with
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Speaker:
Boruch Gorin, Igor Chubarov
Along with
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Speaker:
Boruch Gorin, Igor Chubarov
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Director
67-year-old Haitian film director, screenwriter, journalist, and political activist. He studied in the USA and in France. Peck worked as a taxi driver, a journalist, and a photographer. He graduated from the German Film and Television Academy Berlin in West Berlin. Peck's second feature film The Man by the Shore was in competition at the Cannes Film Festival. His film I Am Not Your Negro premiered at the Berlinale Panorama in 2017. In 2017 Peck filmed The Young Karl Marx about the friendship between a Jewish revolutionary Karl Marx and a German philosopher Friedrich Engels.