Le jeune Karl Marx
In Paris in 1844 Karl Marx meet young Friedrich Engels, the well-to-do son of a factory owner whose studies and research has exposed the poor wages and worse conditions of the new English working class who operate looms, printing presses and other engines of industry that enrich their owners while punishing laborers. The smooth and sophisticated--but equally revolutionary and radical--Engels brings his research, help and resources to provide Marx with the missing piece to the puzzle that composes his new vision of the world.
1965, Plzen, Czech Republic
14 June 1928, Rosario, Argentina
1961 in Leipzig, German Democratic Republic
1980, Stade, Germany
1 June 1976, East Berlin, East Germany
7 February 1959, Baudour, Belgium
July 2, 1925 in Onalua, Belgian Congo [now Democratic Republic of the Congo]
1957, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany
6 February 1911, Tampico, Illinois, USA
26 August 1955, Stralsund, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
18 July 1918, Mvezo, Union of South Africa [now South Africa]
April 17, 1894 in Kalinovka, Dmitriyev Uyezd, Kursk Governorate, Russian Empire [now Khomutovka Raion, Kursk Oblast, Russia]
29 May 1917, Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
13 October 1925, Grantham, Lincolnshire, England, UK
July 5, 1978 in Kassel, Hesse, West Germany
4 January 1976, Berlin, Germany
4 October 1983, Luxembourg, Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg
22 January 1951, Augsburg, Bavaria, West Germany
1975, Berlin, Germany
21 December 1957, Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
July 20, 2017
Another of Peck's meaty, weighty and stirring showcases of talk, language, theories and concepts designed to express opposition, mobilise change and make a difference.
February 13, 2017
At once historically impeccable and a filmic disappointment.
January 22, 2018
...more interested in discursive questions through dialogue than in the visuals. [Full Review in Spanish]
February 13, 2017
August Diehl excels in the eponymous lead role, as he so often does, complete with an endearing glint in his eyes, as somebody you feel gets a real kick of out a debate, as if waiting, fervently, for somebody to have the courage to disagree with him.
January 12, 2018
... flimsy cinema... [Full review in Spanish]
February 13, 2017
It's dutiful, but it's also superficial and polite, and it commits the genteel sin of the old biopics: It turns its hero into a plaster saint.
February 08, 2018
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.
July 23, 2017
It doesn't proselytise as much as it runs with an inherent assumption of the value of the ideas it portrays, taking a relatively dry series of historical events and making them refreshingly accessible.
January 29, 2018
...a typical biographical film. [Full Review in Spanish]
February 08, 2018
It should be dull, but it isn't. Somehow the spectacle of fiercely angry people talking about ideas becomes absorbing and even gripping.

