The Young Karl Marx

The Young Karl Marx

118 mins | Drama, History | March 2, 2017

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.

The Young Karl Marx

118 mins | Drama, History | March 2, 2017

The Young Karl Marx
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.
IMDb rating 6.6
Producers Agat Films & Cie, Velvet Film, Artémis Productions, Rohfilm
Original title Le jeune Karl Marx
Directors Raoul Peck
Writers Pascal Bonitzer, Raoul Peck

Cast

August Diehl

as Karl Marx

Stefan Konarske

as Friedrich Engels

Vicky Krieps

as Jenny von Westphalen

Olivier Gourmet

as Pierre Proudhon

Hannah Steele

as Mary Burns

Rolf Kanies

as Moses Hess

Niels-Bruno Schmidt

as Karl Grün

Alexander Scheer

as Wilhelm Weitling

Marie Meinzenbach

as Lenchen

Hans-Uwe Bauer

as Arnold Ruge

Wiebke Adam

as Mme Ruge

Aran Bertetto

as Paddy

Ulrich Brandhoff

as Herrmann Kriege

Ivan Franěk

as Bakunin

Peter Benedict

as Friedrich Engels sen.

Eric Godon

as The foreman

Stephen Hogan

as Thomas Naylor

Inga R. Kammerer

as Old woman

Annabelle Lewiston

as Lizzy Burns

Denis Lyons

as James

Damien Marchal

as Pavel Annenkov

Elsa Mollien

as Sybille Hess

Henning Peker

as Stirner