Cinema in memory of Marxist founder
Having celebrated the 200th birth anniversary of Karl Marx, the marxist founder, the German Cultural Centre, The Goethe-Institut has been featuring a series of films about Karl Marx.
2017 film, ‘The Young Karl Marx’ directed by Raoul Peck will be screened at 7 pm on January 18 at the Goethe Hall. Co-written by Peck and Pascal Bonitzer, the film stars August Diehl and the film was screened at the Berlin Film Festival in 2017.
In 1843: the 26-year-old Karl Marx is living in exile with his wife in Paris, where he meets Friedrich Engels, whose industrialist father runs a cotton mill in Manchester. The two young men become friends, start writing revolutionary texts together, seek out contact with the utopian workers’ movement “League of the Just”, and face resistance in France, Belgium and England – as well as from within their “own” ranks – as they struggle for nothing less than a new social order. Finally, they complete their influential work, “The Communist Manifesto”.