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The Young Karl Marx

The Young Karl Marx

2017•1h 58m•6.8/10
HistoryDrama

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6.8/10(321)

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.

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Production

Rohfilm, Velvet Film, Artémis Productions, Agat Films & Cie / Ex Nihilo

Language

FR

Status

Released

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August Diehl

August Diehl

Karl Marx

Stefan Konarske

Stefan Konarske

Friedrich Engels

Vicky Krieps

Vicky Krieps

Jenny von Westphalen

Olivier Gourmet

Olivier Gourmet

Pierre Proudhon

Hannah Steele

Hannah Steele

Mary Burns

Rolf Kanies

Rolf Kanies

Moses Hess

Niels-Bruno Schmidt

Niels-Bruno Schmidt

Karl Grün

Alexander Scheer

Alexander Scheer

Wilhelm Weitling

Marie Meinzenbach

Marie Meinzenbach

Lenchen

Hans-Uwe Bauer

Hans-Uwe Bauer

Arnold Ruge

Wiebke Adam-Schwarz

Wiebke Adam-Schwarz

Mme Ruge

Aran Bertetto

Aran Bertetto

Paddy

Ulrich Brandhoff

Ulrich Brandhoff

Herrmann Kriege

Ivan Franěk

Ivan Franěk

Bakunin

Peter Benedict

Peter Benedict

Friedrich Engels sen.

Éric Godon

Éric Godon

The foreman

Stephen Hogan

Stephen Hogan

Thomas Naylor

Inga R. Kammerer

Inga R. Kammerer

Old woman

Annabelle Lewiston

Annabelle Lewiston

Lizzy Burns

Denis Lyons

Denis Lyons

James

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