The Young Karl Marx

Le Jeune Karl Marx

2017·118'

Raoul Peck

DramaHistory

★ 6.8

Letterboxd TMDB #400020

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.

Cast

August Diehl Karl Marx

Stefan Konarske Friedrich Engels

Vicky Krieps Jenny von Westphalen

Olivier Gourmet Pierre Proudhon

Hannah Steele Mary Burns

Rolf Kanies Moses Hess

Niels-Bruno Schmidt Karl Grün

Alexander Scheer Wilhelm Weitling

Marie Meinzenbach Lenchen

Hans-Uwe Bauer Arnold Ruge

Wiebke Adam-Schwarz Mme Ruge

Aran Bertetto Paddy