The Young Karl Marx (2017)
(Le jeune Karl Marx, Raoul Peck, France/Belgium/Germany 2017, 118 min., DCP, German and French w/subtitles)
Labor Film Series | Rochester Premiere. On the heels of his Oscar-nominated documentary I Am Not Your Negro, Raoul Peck’s latest film about German philosopher and revolutionary socialist Karl Marx. In his mid-twenties, Marx (August Diehl) is facing government censorship, forming his partnership with Friedrich Engels (Stefan Konarske), sparring with rival thinkers to build an international socialist movement, and writing the Communist Manifesto. The film focuses on these two impetuous young men, the women in their lives (including Vicky Krieps as Jenny von Westphalen-Marx), and their passionate belief in the revolutionary power of the oppressed to create a radically new world.