The Young Karl Marx (2017)
Rating: 6.9/10
Duration: 118 min
Director(s): Raoul Peck,
Description:
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.
Cast
- Alexander Scheer as Wilhelm Weitling
- Olivier Gourmet as Pierre Proudhon
- Rolf Kanies as Moses Hess
- August Diehl as Karl Marx
- Vicky Krieps as Jenny von Westphalen
- Ivan Franěk as Bakunin
- Hans-Uwe Bauer as Arnold Ruge
- Peter Benedict as Friedrich Engels sen.
- Stefan Konarske as Friedrich Engels
- Hannah Steele as Mary Burns
- Niels-Bruno Schmidt as Karl Grün
- Marie Meinzenbach as Lenchen
- Wiebke Adam as Mme Ruge
- Aran Bertetto as Paddy
- Ulrich Brandhoff as Herrmann Kriege