Storyline
26 year-old Karl Marx embarks with his wife, Jenny, on the road to exile. In 1844 in Paris, he meets Friedrich Engels, an industrialist’s son, who has been investigating the sordid birth of the British working class. Engels, the dandy, provides the last piece of the puzzle to the young Karl Marx’s new vision of the world. Together, between censorship and the police’s repression, riots and political upheavals, they will lead the labor movement during its development into a modern era.
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Cast
August Diehl, Peter Benedict, Vicky Krieps, Niels-Bruno Schmidt, Eric Godon, Rolf Kanies, Hans-Uwe Bauer, Elsa Mollien, Ivan Franěk, Olivier Gourmet, Stephen Hogan, Alexander Scheer, Stefan Konarske, Hannah Steele, Ulrich Brandhoff, Marie Meinzenbach, Wiebke Adam, Aran Bertetto, Inga R. Kammerer, Annabelle Lewiston, Denis Lyons, Damien Marchal, Torsten Ranft, Jürgen Rißmann
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Reviews
90
The great virtue of The Young Karl Marx is its clarity, its ability to perceive the way the eddies of personal experience flow within the wider stream of history.
80
It shouldn’t work, but it does, due to the intelligence of the acting and the stamina and concentration of the writing and directing.
80
A spry romp through the seven years leading up to the drafting of the Communist Manifesto, Raoul Peck’s biopic of Karl Marx’s early years feels like a mix between a prestige BBC drama and a Marx For Dummies primer.
80
Whatever else you think about Marx and his ideas, it's hard to imagine him as hot-blooded and young. Director and co-writer Raoul Peck, as it turns out, not only understands those contradictions, he is committed to embracing them, which is what makes The Young Karl Marx the audacious, engrossing film it is.
60
An intellectually rigorous but stylistically staid peep at the 20-something author of Capital and The Communist Manifesto, Raoul Peck’s The Young Karl Marx is at once historically impeccable and a filmic disappointment.
