Karl Marx in film
The
Eisenstein's project, dating from 1927, to film Marx's book Das Kapital was never realised,[3] although in more recent years the German film director and author Alexander Kluge completed a lengthy homage to Eisenstein's unrealised film entitled News from Ideological Antiquity: Marx – Eisenstein – Das Kapital.[4]
In the 1960s,
In the 1970s, the
The 2011 documentary film Marx Reloaded combines a Marxian analysis of economic crisis with satirical animation sequences involving Marx and Leon Trotsky.
Year as Long as Life
Year as Long as Life (Russian: Год как жизнь) is a
Marx und Engels - Stationen ihres Lebens
In 1978, an 11 part documentary series was produced in the
Week End
Jean-Luc Godard's
Sweet Movie
In Sweet Movie, directed by Dušan Makavejev, a boat with a giant Karl Marx figurehead sailing along a river is a consistent narrative motif. The film includes several characters, such as 'Mr. Kapital' (played by John Vernon), who refer to Marx and Marxist themes.
News from Ideological Antiquity
Alexander Kluge's News from Ideological Antiquity: Marx – Eisenstein – Das Kapital, is an experimental film which explores “the Marxian attention to the production, distribution and consumption at work behind the phenomenological surface of everyday life and experience.”
Apart from the more conceptual passages in the film – whose overall running time is a lengthy 570 minutes – comedian Helge Schneider impersonates Marx in several scenes.
Marx Reloaded
Marx Reloaded, written and directed by the British
In addition to its Marxian analysis the film follows "The Matrix-themed cartoon adventures of Karl Marx, lost in an Alice-style commodity-induced nightmare with only one way out."[1]
Monty Python's Flying Circus
At least two episodes of the
The Young Karl Marx
The Young Karl Marx is a 2017 film about Young Marx directed by Raoul Peck starring August Diehl.[14]
The Leader
The Leader is an animation series co-produced by the Chinese government's Office for the Research and Construction of Marxist Theory about Marx's life, friendship, romance, and "his contributions to class struggle and the revolutionary movement."[15]
Marx filmography
Films in which Karl Marx is represented and/or in which his ideas or principal works comprise the main narrative theme:
Fiction
- 1967 Week End. Directed by Jean-Luc Godard.
- 1968 Mohr und die Raben von London (Moor and the Ravens of London). Directed by Helmut Dziuba.
- 1974 Sweet Movie. Written and directed by Dušan Makavejev.
- 1979 Karl Marx. The Early Years (Die jungen Jahre). Germany-USSR. Parts 1–7.[16][17]
- 2004 "The Fever". Directed by Gabriel Nero.
- 2010 The Germans – Karl Marx and the Class struggle (Die Deutschen – Karl Marx und der Klassenkampf)[18]
- 2012 The Meeting of the Century (Encontro do século) produced by UNIVESP TV
- 2014 Marx is back (Marx Ha Vuelto) (Argentina)
- 2016 The Limehouse Golem portrayed by Henry Goodman
- 2017 The Young Karl Marx (Le jeune Karl Marx). Directed by Raoul Peck.
- 2020 Miss Marx, about Marx's daughter Eleanor. Portrayed by Philip Gröning.
Documentary
- 1983 The Spectre of Marxism. Script by Stuart Hall. Produced by Thames Television.
- 1986 Manifestoon. Directed by Jesse Drew.
- 2002 The Mark Steel Lectures. Series 1, episode 6. Produced by BBC.
- 2005 Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism. Episode 1. PBS, US.
- 2008 Karl Marx – Ein Philosoph macht Geschichte (Karl Marx: A Philosopher Makes History). Directed by Gernot Jaeger and Carsten Jaeger.
- 2011 Marx Reloaded. Written, directed and co-produced by Jason Barker. Medea Film / Films Noirs / Arte / ZDF.
- 2016 Genius of the Modern World: Karl Marx. Episode 1, BBC.
Art film
- 1999 Wandering Marxwards. Directed by Michael Blum and produced at the Banff Center for the Arts, Alberta, Canada.
- 2008 Nachrichten aus der ideologischen Antike - Marx/Eisenstein/Das Kapital (News from Ideological Antiquity: Marx – Eisenstein – Das Kapital). Directed by Alexander Kluge.
Comedy
- 1970 Monty Python's Flying Circus, episode 25: 'World Forum/Communist Quiz'.
- 1972 Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus, episode 2: 'The Philosophers' Football Match'. Directed by Ian MacNaughton.
- 2023 Epic Rap Battles of History, episode 87: "Henry Ford vs. Karl Marx.
See also
- Cinema of the Soviet Union
- Dušan Makavejev
- Jason Barker
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Marx Reloaded
- Sweet Movie
- Week End
References
- ^ a b "Sonic Truth: Marx returns to bail out finance capital". Originalsonictruth.blogspot.com. 20 January 2011. Retrieved 21 February 2012.
- ^ "Marxism and early cinema – Marxism – film, movie, documentary". Filmreference.com. Retrieved 21 February 2012.
- ^ "News from Ideological Antiquity: Marx – Eisenstein – Das Kapital". Cornerhouse. Archived from the original on 3 October 2010. Retrieved 21 February 2012.
- ^ "Ellipsis No. 25 " The Seventh Art". Theseventhart.info. 26 December 2010. Retrieved 21 February 2012.
- ^ "Senses of Cinema interview with Dušan Makavejev". Archived from the original on 25 December 2010. Retrieved 16 March 2011.
- ^ Bradshaw, Peter (12 February 2017). "The Guardian, 12 February 2017". London. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
- ^ Григорий Рошаль (1974). "Кинолента жизни". Искусство. Retrieved 26 March 2016.
- ISBN 9785699096121. Retrieved 26 March 2016.
- ^ "MARX UND ENGELS - STATIONEN IHRES LEBENS (1978)". Retrieved 22 September 2017.
- ^ See David Sterritt, The Films of Jean-Luc Godard: Seeing the Invisible (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), p. 83.
- ^ a b "New Left Review, July–August 2009". Retrieved 16 March 2011.
- ^ Jason Barker. "Marx Reloaded Film". Marxreloaded.com. Archived from the original on 21 March 2011. Retrieved 21 February 2012.
- ^ Francis Wheen, Karl Marx (London: Fourth Estate, 1999), p. 116.
- ^ "Diaphana picks up 'Young Karl Marx'".
- ^ Milligan, Mercedes (19 December 2018). "China's Bilibili Announces First-Ever Karl Marx Anime". Animation Magazine. Retrieved 8 January 2019.
- ^ "Marx on the Silver Screen".
- ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: Карл Маркс Молодые годы 1 серия. YouTube.
- ^ "Karl Marx und der Klassenkampf - die Deutschen - ZDFmediathek - ZDF Mediathek". Archived from the original on 2 June 2016. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
Sources
- Frederic Jameson in New Left Review, July–August 2009.
- Karl Marx: Ein Philosoph macht Geschichte at Amazon.
- 'World Forum – Communist Quiz' in Monty Python’s Flying Circus, episode 25 at YouTube.
- Mohr und die Raben von London at the Internet Movie Database.
- News from Ideological Antiquity at the Goethe Institut.