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The Young Karl Marx
Directed by
Raoul Peck
2017
1h 58m
Not Rated
History
,
Drama
,
Biography
6.6
63%
71%
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The early years of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Jenny Marx, between Paris, Brussels and London.
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Cast of The Young Karl Marx
August Diehl
Karl Marx
Stefan Konarske
Friedrich Engels
Vicky Krieps
Jenny von Westphalen
Olivier Gourmet
Pierre Proudhon
Hannah Steele
Mary Burns
Rolf Kanies
Moses Hess
Niels-Bruno Schmidt
Karl Grün
Alexander Scheer
Wilhelm Weitling
Marie Meinzenbach
Lenchen
Hans-Uwe Bauer
Arnold Ruge
Wiebke Adam
Mme Ruge
Aran Bertetto
Paddy
Ulrich Brandhoff
Herrmann Kriege
Ivan Franěk
Bakunin
Peter Benedict
Friedrich Engels sen.
Eric Godon
The foreman
Stephen Hogan
Thomas Naylor
Inga R. Kammerer
Old woman
Annabelle Lewiston
Lizzy Burns
Denis Lyons
James
Damien Marchal
Pavel Annenkov
Elsa Mollien
Sybille Hess
Torsten Ranft
Jürgen Rißmann
Henning Peker
Stirner
The Young Karl Marx Reviews
RogerEbert.com
Glenn Kenny
Raoul Peck is on a roll.
AV Club
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
From its lifelessly anachronistic English dialogue to its Masterpiece Theatre lighting and production design, The Young Karl Marx tries to filter radical thought through the pace and aesthetics of a middlebrow drama.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
Peck's work is handsome; what it lacks is a true sense of danger, a feeling of history roiling in the present tense.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
Watching it is like being tossed into an agitprop blender..It has little depth, either political or psychological.
Slant Magazine
Chuck Bowen
The film is ironically gripped by the sort of ideological "vagueness" that Karl Marx dismisses throughout.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
August Diehl... invests the twentysomething Marx with a quick mind and a feverish impatience that propel the narrative forward, his energy a real asset to a film that trades heavily in ideas.
The New Republic
Jo Livingstone
With the sensibility of a very boring Downton Abbey and a political consciousness to match, The Young Marx is an insipid disaster.
NPR
Bob Mondello
And by the time Marx writes what his wife calls a...critique of the critical critique - well, my eyes glazing over at the dialectics, I for one needed an antidote.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Against all expectations, "Young Karl Marx" makes this kind of brainy content bracing and dramatic.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
Both intellectually serious and engagingly free-spirited.
Village Voice
Alan Scherstuhl
Its story concerns the development of communist theory, but in its construction it harks back to Eli Whitney's theory of interchangeable parts.
New Yorker
Richard Brody
The movie's plush, cozy aesthetic and unintentionally funny melodrama are at odds with its subjects: revolt, theory, originality, and observation.
Variety
Owen Gleiberman
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.
Hollywood Reporter
Deborah Young
At once historically impeccable and a filmic disappointment.
San Diego CityBeat
Glenn Heath Jr.
Frames history in terms of a spreading ideology. The resulting character study is leaden yet sobering.
It's Just Movies
Ron Wilkinson
A compelling story of how near we came to losing Marx' message then, and how near we are to losing it now.
Newcity
Ray Pride
Peck's focus is on how the ideas [are] not mere airy abstraction. Diehl and Konarske are game, their performances rippling with the physical thrill of sharing the pursuit of knowledge amid an atmosphere of censorship, police raids and concerted opposition
Hammer to Nail
Christopher Llewellyn Reed
Peck ... does a marvelous, meticulous job recreating the period look and feel of various European cities of the mid-1800s.
Quelle Movies
Raquel Stecher
a powerful, multi-lingual biopic
The Nation
Stuart Klawans
Is the whole thing kind of silly? Yes, but maybe not quite enough. Will it inspire the masses to take up the Manifesto anew? Now, that's funny.
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