The Young Karl Marx

Original title: Le jeune Karl Marx

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August Diehl in The Young Karl Marx (2017)

At the age of 26, Karl Marx embarks with his wife Jenny on the road to exile. In 1844 Paris they meet young Friedrich Engels, son of a factory owner and an astute student of the English proletariat class. Engels brings Marx the missing piece to the puzzle that composes his new vision of the world. Together, between censorship and police raids, riots and political upheavals, they will preside over the birth of the labor movement, which until then had been mostly makeshift and unorganized. This will grow into the most complete theoretical and political transformation of the world since the Renaissance - driven, against all expectations, by two brilliant, insolent and sharp-witted young men.

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The early years of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Jenny Marx, between Paris, Brussels and London.The early years of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Jenny Marx, between Paris, Brussels and London.The early years of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Jenny Marx, between Paris, Brussels and London.

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The Young Karl Marx (2018) | Official US Trailer HD

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Trivia
Swiss censorship visa # 1011.821.

Quotes
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: [to Marx] Do not be like Luther who, after destroying Catholic dogma, founded an equally intolerant religion.

Connections
Featured in Exterminate All the Brutes: The Disturbing Confidence of Ignorance (2021)

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Written and Performed by Bob Dylan

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10/10

One of the best political biographies in years.

When an honest film like this gets 6.5 stars on IMDB and The Avengers: Infinity Wars get 9.1, it shows that there is something terribly wrong with the ranking system on this site. A thinking film that captures the emotional, social and political complexity of mid-nineteenth industrial European radicalism is something to be truly cherished in this age of the vomit and mind numbing putridity coming from the nightmare factory of popular culture. That's all I need to say. Just watch this film.