The Young Karl Marx

"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).