The Young Karl Marx

Plot

26 year-old Karl Marx embarks with his wife, Jenny, on the road to exile. In 1844 in Paris, he meets Friedrich Engels, an industrialist’s son, who has been investigating the sordid birth of the British working class. Engels, the dandy, provides the last piece of the puzzle to the young Karl Marx’s new vision of the world. Together, between censorship and the police’s repression, riots and political upheavals, they will lead the labor movement during its development into a modern era.

Cast

August Diehl

Karl Marx

Stefan Konarske

Friedrich Engels

Vicky Krieps

Jenny von Westphalen

Olivier Gourmet

Pierre Proudhon

Hannah Steele

Mary Burns

Rolf Kanies

Moses Hess

Niels-Bruno Schmidt

Karl Grün

Alexander Scheer

Wilhelm Weitling

Marie Meinzenbach

Lenchen

Hans-Uwe Bauer

Arnold Ruge

Wiebke Adam-Schwarz

Mme Ruge

Aran Bertetto

Paddy

Ulrich Brandhoff

Herrmann Kriege

Ivan Franěk

Bakunin

Peter Benedict

Friedrich Engels sen.