Film Screening
The Young Karl Marx
The Young Karl Marx
(Der junge Karl Marx)
Director: Raoul Peck, colour, 118 mins, 2017
1843: The 26-year-old Karl Marx is living in exile with his wife in Paris, where he meets Friedrich Engels, whose industrialist father runs a cotton mill in Manchester. The two young men become friends, start writing revolutionary texts together, seek out contact with the utopian workers' movement "League of the Just", and face resistance in France, Belgium and England – as well as from within their "own" ranks – as they struggle for nothing less than a new social order. Finally, they complete their influential work, "The Communist Manifesto".
Details
Hamilton, Lido Cinema
Level 1, Centre Place
501 Victoria St
Hamilton 3204
New Zealand
Part of series German Films in the Film Society Programm 2019