Films about Karl Marx
On the occasion of Marx's 150th birthday, Helmut Dziuba directed one of the first cinematic biographies on Karl Marx. Based on the well-known GDR children's book of the same name, it is the only feature film made by the East German, state-owned film studio DEFA to feature Marx as the dramatic focal point. The film follows Karl Marx during his year of exile in London, 1856. There, he meets the family of the child labourer, Joe, and is dismayed by the everyday life they live between night work and 12-hour shifts. In conversations with the workers and their children, the thinker puts his weight behind resistance and helps to organize a successful strike.
Director: Helmut Dziuba, b/w, 95 min., 1968
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