The director of the film I Am Not Your Negro (2016) tells the story of three young intellectuals who decide to change the world: Karl Marx, Jenny Marx and Friedrich Engels. In the film Young Karl Marx (Le jeune Karl Marx, 2017) we get to know the story of the founder and theoretician of communism.
The year 1844. Karl Marx he is twenty-six years old and lives in exile with his wife Jenny in Paris. He is constantly plagued by debts and lack. When he first meets Friedrich Engels, the son of a rich industrialist, eliminates him as a peasant. But Engels, who just published a study about the plight of the English working class, distanced himself from his class a long time ago.
They become young men a friend and they soon begin to inspire each other in their search for a theoretical basis for revolution, which in their opinion is imminent.
Biographical drama
Young Karl Marx
(Le jeune Karl Marx, 2017, France / Germany / Belgium)
Directed by: Raoul Peck. They play: August Diehl, Stefan Konarske, Vicky Krieps, Olivier Gourmet, Hannah Steele, Alexander Scheer...
In the cinema from October 25 to November 7 (Kinodvor).
