The young Karl Marx

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Movie
German title The young Karl Marx
Original title Le Jeune Karl Marx
Country of production France , Germany , Belgium
original language French , German , English
Publishing year 2017
length 112 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
JMK 10
Rod
Director Raoul Peck
script Pascal Bonitzer ,
Raoul Peck
production Nicolas Blanc ,
Rémi Grellety ,
Robert Guédiguian ,
Raoul Peck
music Alexei Aigui
camera Kolja Brandt
cut Frederique Broos
occupation

The young Karl Marx is a historical film by the director Raoul Peck from 2017 . The film sheds light on Karl Marx 's formative life between 1843 and 1848. August Diehl as Karl Marx and Stefan Konarske as Friedrich Engels play the leading roles . The film premiered on February 12, 2017 at the Berlin International Film Festival . The cinema release in Germany was on March 2, 2017.

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In 1843 the young Karl Marx, then still a journalist for the Rheinische Zeitung in Cologne, was driven into exile by political pressure and went to Paris with his wife Jenny . There the acquaintance with Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and Friedrich Engels deepened . Engels had recently published his study of the miserable living conditions of the English working class. His turning away from the bourgeoisie , from which he himself comes, is initially described separately, and his first encounter with his future Irish partner is also shown. After initial difficulties, Marx and Engels become friends and begin their work together. After another exile - this time from France, from where Marx fled to Belgium - Marx Engels followed to England. Through self-doubt and temptation, the two succeeded in gaining the trust of the representatives of the League of the Righteous and writing a party program for them: the Communist Party's manifesto . At the decisive meeting they get the renaming to the League of Communists and the adoption of the new program. Finally, the revolutions of 1848/1849 appear on the horizon .

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Raoul Peck with the cast of the film at the Berlinale 2017: from left to right: Alexander Scheer, Hannah Steele, Raoul Peck, August Diehl and Stefan Konarske

Director Raoul Peck also worked on Le jeune Karl Marx and I Am Not Your Negro . In an interview with Fabian Tietke from the taz , Peck explains that the two films are a return to his theoretical foundations for him.

Le jeune Karl Marx had its world premiere on February 12, 2017 in the Special section at the 67th Berlinale . The German theatrical release took place on March 2, 2017.

criticism

The German film critics received the film mixed. Sascha Westphal criticized on epd-film that Peck flees "into a kind of update of socialist realism ".

Spiegel Online remarked: "The radical thing in his life were his thoughts and writings, and to make this accessible on film, a completely different narrative approach would be needed than the clumsy condensation in supposed key scenes." The Spiegel print edition stated that the film had " the charm of an illustrated Wikipedia entry ”.

Jenni Zylka found positive words in the taz : “(...) despite the directorial decision to keep the film formally conventional-historical, perhaps not to mess with any of the possible target groups, there is a lot of passion to be felt: The Haitian director Peck (...) would like to understand not only with the head, but also with the heart. "

The US film magazine Variety was not very enthusiastic about the Berlinale in its report and stated that the film was so old-fashioned that it tamed the radicalism of its subject.

By July 20, 2017, 176,604 people in Germany had seen the film in cinemas.

Web links

Commons : The young Karl Marx  - collection of pictures

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for The Young Karl Marx . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; February 2017; test number: 166 263 K). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ Age designation for The young Karl Marx . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ Fabian Tietke: “Everything is based on reality” , interview with Raoul Peck, in: taz - Die Tageszeitung from February 16, 2017.
  4. ^ Sascha Westfal: Critique of Der Junge Karl Marx , epd-film.de, February 12, 2017, last accessed on February 24, 2017.
  5. ↑ Flashes of inspiration after a night through , spiegel.de, February 13, 2017, last accessed on February 24, 2017.
  6. ↑ mwo: Revolution with a beard . In: Der Spiegel 9/2017 of February 25, 2017, p. 111.
  7. ↑ Biopic "The young Karl Marx": Lots of passion , taz.de, March 1, 2017.
  8. ↑ Owen Gleiberman: Berlin Film Review: 'The Young Karl Marx' , variety.com, February 13, 2017, last accessed on February 24, 2017 (English).
  9. ↑ Top 100 Germany 2017 In: insidekino.com. Retrieved July 20, 2017.