The year is 1844 and we join 26-year-old Karl Marx and his wife Jenny in exile in Paris. Fierce with indignation and poverty, addicted to cheap cigars, Marx is spoiling for an argument and a fight. And then he meets young Friedrich Engels, son of a factory owner, who provides the missing piece needed for the foundation of Marxist theory.
Haitian Raoul Peck presents a lush period drama about the early days of communism, a film that The Guardian calls an “intelligent communist bromance”.
Filmography: I Am Not Your Negro (2016, doc), Murder in Pacot (2014), Moloch Tropical (2009).