The young karl marx netflix

2017 film by Raoul Peck

Not to be confused with Young Marx.

The Young Karl Marx (French: Le jeune Karl Marx; German: Der junge Karl Marx) is a 2017 historical drama film about Karl Marx, directed by Haitian filmmaker and political activist Raoul Peck, co-written by Peck and Pascal Bonitzer, and starring August Diehl.^[3] It had its world premiere at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival on 12 February 2017.^[4]

Plot

While in his 20s, Karl Marx struggles to establish himself as a writer of political and sociological importance.

The film begins with a scene where poor people are gathering dead wood in a forest where they have done this for centuries, but the government has made it illegal to collect the wood as it is now legally private property of the landlords.

The poor are persecuted and extrajudicially killed by the government officials. Marx wrote about these events and believes that the bourgeois class has taken owne