Very well developed the story of the young marx .. I emphasize the interpretation of vicky krieps. I liked!

Incredibly outside of the comfort zone estabilished by the lame Hollywood standard, with great context, great representation of mid 1800s, a multi-language speaking cast with great acting balls, a well developed storyline and, most of all, a great movie subject which makes us notice the untold part until what we actuallly know about the foundations of communism thoughout Europe and its impact on further history of mankind.

All the big players leading to the Paris commune are here... IN A BROMANCE MOVIEEEEE!!!

Occasionally there are scenes that find the truth of being a young radical trying to save the world but mostly the movie seems content to just have Marx and Engels drink and always be right.

Kudos for making a movie about sharp philosophical differences between 1840s radicals which is truly compelling. Marx, Engels, Proudhon, Bakunin, Weitling are all very sympathetic, because we also get more than a glimpse of what compels their work. Jenny Marx is a worthy partner to Karl, and is portrayed as such, a character with real depth, as is Mary Burns, who weds Engels. The film's climax is in early 1848, with the publication of The Communist Manifesto, and I'd actually love to see a sequel that portrays the revolutions later that year.

just the fact someone did a movie on this very subject itself gives hope.

great casting great story bravooo

Rich film that centers the struggle and development of ideas through Karl, Jenny, Friedrich, and Mary. Peck's filmmaking was dedicated whole-heartedly to the facts of their lives and the nuances of their discourse, and so he serves an intelligent piece of work very much in the revolutionary spirit. Peck says the innovation of the film might be that it progresses along the development of ideas, rather than the norm for a biopic of relationships, and I agree. A real lesson and a treat. Karl Marx welcome to the West.

Six years ago I stumbled upon a Charlie Rose interview with author Mary Gabriel, a 2011 National Book Award finalist for her Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution. Intrigued, I ordered Gabriel's book. By the time I finished Love and Capital I was, as the British say, "gob smacked." What puzzled and surprised me, as a filmmaker, was that this turbulent epic, utterly engrossing and deeply romantic, had attracted so little attention. Why had this story not made it to the big screen, or materialized into a blockbuster television series? Is the name Karl Marx still so anathema? Then, last Sunday, a new film titled The Young Karl Marx (Le Jeune Karl Marx) which premiered at the 2017 Berlin International Film Festival, suddenly found its way to the Amherst Cinema. In spite of some tepid reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, curiosity lured me to the screening. I have no regrets: The Young Karl Marx (YKM) is a rare and unusual film-beautifully-acted by a stellar cast, craftily scripted, and heavily focused on political content and character. Here is how Peter Bradshaw reviewed it in the Guardian/UK: "Raoul Peck is the Haitian film-maker who has an Oscar nomination this year with his James Baldwin documentary I Am Not Your Negro. Now he comes to Berlin with this sinewy and intensely focused, uncompromisingly cerebral period drama...about the birth of communism in the mid-19th century. It gives you a real sense of what radical politics was about: talk. There is talk, talk and more talk. It should be dull, but it isn't. Somehow the spectacle of fiercely angry people talking about ideas becomes absorbing and even gripping."At the film's center is its title character, played brilliantly by August Diehl. Bradshaw describes Diehl's Marx as "ragged, fierce with indignation and poverty, addicted to cheap cigars, spoiling for an argument and a fight." This is the notoriously nasty side of the Marx persona. But as Gabriel's book, and many other biographies reveal, Marx's character is fascinatingly complex. I have often tried to imagine what Marx must have been like, but been unable to wrap my brain around his multi-sided character. Exploring the complexities of Marx, the man, is perhaps the film's greatest strength. For starters, Marx was viewed by his contemporaries as smart as a whip. Moses Hess, a socialist and early Zionist, provides this over-the-top description to his friends of 24-year old Marx: "...you can look forward to meeting the greatest, perhaps the only real philosopher now living. ...He combines a biting wit with deeply serious philosophical thinking. Imagine Rousseau, Voltaire, Holbach, Lessing, Heine and Hegel united in one person, I say united, not lumped together - and you have Dr. Marx." Edmund Wilson described Marx as the greatest satirist since Jonathan Swift. But he was also a pussy cat: Wilhelm Liebknecht, who was constantly in the household during the 1850s, remembered Marx as "the most tender father: one must have seen Marx with his children to obtain a complete notion of the depths of sentiment and the childlike nature of this hero of Wissenschaft (academic pursuit). In his free minutes, or while strolling, he brought them along, played the wildest and most lively games with them- in short he was a child among children. "Children should educate their parents," said Marx, and lived up to the dictum by keeping in step with the reading, entering the fantasy life and adjusting his views to meet the religious scruples of his engaging youngest daughter, Tussy. Marx tells her the story of the Passion-"the carpenter whom the rich men killed," adding that much can be forgiven Christianity because it has taught the adoration of the child. Because YKM dramatizes only a short five year period in Marx's life (1842 to 1847) a great deal of the Marx family saga remains untold: childhood and family life in Trier; Marx's scorching love affair with the baron's daughter, Jenny von Westphalen; the crucial role of his wife and three daughters in aiding and abetting him at every turn; Karl's betrayal of Jenny goes public when Lenchen, the family housekeeper, gives birth to Karl's illegitimate son Freddy, leaving it to Engels to save Marx's bacon by falsely claiming paternity of the boy, thereby rescuing Karl and Jenny's marriage. Perhaps these fascinating omissions will be addressed when the Marx family saga finally becomes a long-running television series--whenever that may come to pass. While we wait, Le Jeune Karl Marx is well worth the price of admission.

I just loved this movie! The plot is thorough, the philosophy interesting, the characters are charismatic... The images are beautiful, the atmosphere just fine, the music is nice. The political theories are also accessible to all public. Being a student, I really appreciated.

His film works as a well-informed and intelligent biopic, not as a vulgar propaganda film.

It doesn't exactly work, but compelling performances - and Peck's intrepidly weird attempts to somehow make reading, writing and thinking cinematic - make it watchable just the same.

Kolja Brandt's cinematography makes a modest production budget look lavish.

The witty, astute script explores seriously textured themes.

One may conclude Raoul Peck's biopic is so absorbing because Marx's ideas remain so full of fire and so alive.