SummaryAt the age of 26, Karl Marx (August Diehl) embarks with his wife Jenny (Vicky Krieps) on the road to exile. In 1844 Paris they meet young Friedrich Engels (Stefan Konarske), son of a factory owner and an astute student of the English proletariat class. Engels brings Marx the missing piece to the puzzle that composes his new vision of the world. T... Read More
Directed By:Raoul Peck
Written By:Pascal Bonitzer, Raoul Peck, Bertina Henrichs, Pierre Hodgson
The Young Karl Marx
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Generally Favorable
43% Positive
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Feb 22, 2018
90
The great virtue of The Young Karl Marx is its clarity, its ability to perceive the way the eddies of personal experience flow within the wider stream of history.
Feb 18, 2017
80
A spry romp through the seven years leading up to the drafting of the Communist Manifesto, Raoul Peck’s biopic of Karl Marx’s early years feels like a mix between a prestige BBC drama and a Marx For Dummies primer.
Feb 23, 2018
75
The movie is largely a story of personalities. Karl is fiery, brilliant, disorganized, passionate. Engels is, despite his courage and curiosity, a bit more of a wide-eyed innocent and certainly a more organized person. Their female partners do take secondary roles, but the movie depicts them as committed, innovative, and acute: true fellow travelers and comrades. The actors portraying these figures are all exciting to watch.
Feb 18, 2017
60
An intellectually rigorous but stylistically staid peep at the 20-something author of Capital and The Communist Manifesto, Raoul Peck’s The Young Karl Marx is at once historically impeccable and a filmic disappointment.
Feb 23, 2018
50
The Young Karl Marx disappointingly resembles for the most part a conventional biopic. It has little depth, either political or psychological.
Feb 22, 2018
50
The movie’s plush, cozy aesthetic and unintentionally funny melodrama are at odds with its subjects: revolt, theory, originality, and observation.
Feb 18, 2017
50
This immaculately furnished film sacrifices too much drama in order to expound upon its characters’ ideals, and sacrifices too much exploration of those ideals in order to accommodate for a healthy degree of drama.
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Jun 2, 2023
5
(Mauro Lanari)
Prevented from making a philosophical cinema that would explain the differences between the multiple competing theories (Young Hegelians, Feuerbach, Stirner, Proudhon, Bakunin, etc.), and that hypothesized the reason(s) for the failure of the communist proposal (in my opinion its erroneous psychological anthropology), on the occasion of the bicentenary of Marx's birth the Haitian director and political activist Raoul Peck has produced a bohemian television buddie movie set in the mid-1800s.
Production Company:
- Agat Films & Cie
- Velvet Film
- Rohfilm
- Artémis Productions
- France 3 Cinéma
- Jouror Productions
- Südwestrundfunk (SWR)
- Radio Télévision Belge Francophone (RTBF)
- VOO
- BE TV
- Shelter Prod
- Canal+
- France Télévisions
- Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC)
- Deutscher Filmförderfonds (DFFF)
- Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM)
- Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg
- Film- und Medienstiftung NRW
- Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA)
- Tax Shelter du Gouvernement Fédéral Belge
- Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
- Mercure International
- Taxshelter. be
- Indéfilms 4
- A Plus Image 6
- SofiTVCiné 3
Release Date:Feb 23, 2018
Duration:1 h 58 m
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Awards
Traverse City Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
