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Le jeune Karl Marx
In the mid-1800s, after decades of the scientific and economic march of the Industrial Revolution has created an age of both new prosperity and new problems, a 26-year-old writer, researcher and radical named Karl Marx embarks, with his wife Jenny, on the road to exile...
1965, Plzen, Czech Republic
1975, Berlin, Germany
26 August 1955, Stralsund, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
21 December 1957, Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
13 October 1925, Grantham, Lincolnshire, England, UK
6 February 1911, Tampico, Illinois, USA
14 October 1963, Koblenz, Germany
22 July 1963, Namur, Wallonia, Belgium
7 February 1959, Baudour, Belgium
22 January 1951, Augsburg, Bavaria, West Germany
4 January 1976, Berlin, Germany
14 June 1928, Rosario, Argentina
1957, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany
1 June 1976, East Berlin, East Germany
April 17, 1894 in Kalinovka, Dmitriyev Uyezd, Kursk Governorate, Russian Empire [now Khomutovka Raion, Kursk Oblast, Russia]
July 20, 2017
Another of Peck's meaty, weighty and stirring showcases of talk, language, theories and concepts designed to express opposition, mobilise change and make a difference.
January 12, 2018
... flimsy cinema... [Full review in Spanish]
February 13, 2017
August Diehl excels in the eponymous lead role, as he so often does, complete with an endearing glint in his eyes, as somebody you feel gets a real kick of out a debate, as if waiting, fervently, for somebody to have the courage to disagree with him.
February 08, 2018
It should be dull, but it isn't. Somehow the spectacle of fiercely angry people talking about ideas becomes absorbing and even gripping.
July 23, 2017
It doesn't proselytise as much as it runs with an inherent assumption of the value of the ideas it portrays, taking a relatively dry series of historical events and making them refreshingly accessible.
February 13, 2017
It's dutiful, but it's also superficial and polite, and it commits the genteel sin of the old biopics: It turns its hero into a plaster saint.
January 29, 2018
...a typical biographical film. [Full Review in Spanish]
January 22, 2018
...more interested in discursive questions through dialogue than in the visuals. [Full Review in Spanish]
February 08, 2018
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.
February 13, 2017
At once historically impeccable and a filmic disappointment.

