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Le jeune Karl Marx
The early years of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Jenny Marx, between Paris, Brussels and London.
1975, Berlin, Germany
6 February 1911, Tampico, Illinois, USA
1 June 1976, East Berlin, East Germany
22 July 1963, Namur, Wallonia, Belgium
7 February 1959, Baudour, Belgium
13 July 1963, Switzerland
1961 in Leipzig, German Democratic Republic
January 22, 2018
...more interested in discursive questions through dialogue than in the visuals. [Full Review in Spanish]
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 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.
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
At once historically impeccable and a filmic disappointment.
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
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.
January 29, 2018
...a typical biographical film. [Full Review in Spanish]
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 12, 2018
... flimsy cinema... [Full review in Spanish]

