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Screenplay Pascal Bonitzer, Raoul Peck
Director Raoul Peck

The Young Karl Marx

Original Title: Le Jeune Karl Marx

Release Date: 2017-03-02

Duration: 118 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • August Diehl
    Karl Marx
  • Vicky Krieps
    Jenny von Westphalen
  • Olivier Gourmet
    Pierre Proudhon
  • Eric Godon
    The foreman
  • Alexander Scheer
    Wilhelm Weitling
  • Elsa Mollien
    Sybille Hess
  • Rolf Kanies
    Moses Hess
  • Hans-Uwe Bauer
    Arnold Ruge
  • Stefan Konarske
    Friedrich Engels
  • Peter Benedict
    Friedrich Engels sen.