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2017 | Color | 118:00

Karl Marx, age 26, lives in exile in France with his wife Jenny in 1844. There he meets young Friedrich Engels: a bourgeois man who shares his sense of humor, has just written about the growing destitution of the English proletariat, and is in love with a spinner and rebellious member of the labor movement. As comrades in arms, the two men—with Jenny’s help—draft the Marxian texts that will unleash the revolution.


Direction: Peck; Raoul
Script: Peck; Raoul, Hodgson; Pierre, Bonitzer; Pascal
Production: Blanc; Nicolas
Photography: Brandt; Kolja
Music: Aigui; Alexei
Cast:Diehl; August, Niels-Bruno Schmidt, Ulrich Brandhoff, Denis Lyons, Damien Marchal, Aran Bertetto, Wiebke Adam, Annabelle Lewiston, Stephen Hogan, Rolf Kanies, Godon; Eric, Gourmet; Olivier, Stefan Konarske, Vicky Krieps, Hannah Steele
Participation year at FICM: 2018

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