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THE YOUNG KARL MARX

LE JEUNE KARL MARX

By Raoul PECK

FILMCOOPI ZURICH AG - as DISTR Theatrical

Historical - Completed 2016

Berlinale 2017

Special Gala

- Year of production
- 2016
- Genres
- Historical, Drama
- Countries
- FRANCE, BELGIUM, GERMANY
- Languages
- GERMAN, FRENCH, ENGLISH
- Duration
- 118 mn
- Director(s)
- Raoul PECK
- Writer(s)
- Raoul PECK, Pascal BONITZER
- Cast
- August DIEHL, Stefan KONARSKE, Vicky KRIEPS, Olivier GOURMET
- ISAN
- 0000-0004-4430-0000-7-0000-0000-G
- Producer(s)
- Nicolas BLANC (AGAT FILMS & CIE / EX NIHILO), Robert GUÉDIGUIAN (AGAT FILMS & CIE / EX NIHILO), Rémi GRELLETY (VELVET FILM)
- Synopsis
- At the age of 26, Karl Marx embarks with his wife Jenny on the road to exile. In Paris in 1844 they meet young Friedrich Engels, son of a factory owner, who’s studied the sordid beginnings of the English proletariat. Engels, somewhat of a dandy, brings Karl Marx the missing piece to the puzzle that composes his new vision of the world. Together, between censorship and police raids, riots and political upheavals, they will preside over the birth of the labor movement, which until then had been mostly makeshift and unorganized. This will grow into the most complete theoretical and political transformation of the world since the Renaissance – driven, against all expectations, by two brilliant, insolent and sharp-witted young men from good families.