The Young Karl Marx

Masters

""It works… due to the intelligence of the acting and the stamina and concentration of the writing and directing.""

The Guardian
  • Archive - Festival 33
  • Director: Raoul Peck
  • France, Germany, Belgium 2017
  • 118 minutes
  • French, German, English
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

The year is 1844 and we join 26-year-old Karl Marx and his wife Jenny in exile in Paris. Fierce with indignation and poverty, addicted to cheap cigars, Marx is spoiling for an argument and a fight. And then he meets young Friedrich Engels, son of a factory owner, who provides the missing piece needed for the foundation of Marxist theory.

Haitian Raoul Peck presents a lush period drama about the early days of communism, a film that The Guardian calls an “intelligent communist bromance”.

Filmography: I Am Not Your Negro (2016, doc), Murder in Pacot (2014), Moloch Tropical (2009).


  • Director Raoul Peck
  • Production Nicolas Blanc, Rémi Greilety, Robert Guédiguian, Raoul Peck
  • Script Raoul Peck, Pascal Bonitzer
  • Cinematography Kolja Brandt
  • Editing Frédérique Broos
  • Music Alexei Aigui
  • Festivals Berlin
  • Actors August Diehl, Stefan Konarske, Vicky Krieps, Olivier Gourmet
  • Source Films Distribution, Paris