“Der junge Karl Marx” (The Young Karl Marx) is a historical drama that covers the revolutionary, theoretical and political activity of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in the period from 1843 to 1847. This is the period when Marx and Engels began the joint work which became the foundation of the scientific worldview of the proletariat.
Within the limited framework of a film, Raoul Peck tries his best in order to present both the rich theoretical work of the two revolutionary thinkers as well as their militant activity. Despite the difficulty of the task the director uses effectively the powerful tools provided by cinema as a means of disseminating ideas.
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Sunday, July 31, 2022
Thoughts prompted by the film "The Young Karl Marx"
By Nikos Mottas.
Thursday, May 26, 2022
Jean-Luc Godard: "Cannes Festival is a propaganda tool - Zelensky a bad actor"
The 75th annual Cannes Film Festival kicked off on Sunday 22 May, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appearing on a video message during the opening night, giving a speech about the importance of film-making in the midst of war.
Commenting on Zelensky's propagandistic appearance at Cannes, the legendary French-Swiss film director Jean-Luc Godard, one of the most influential European filmakers of the 20th century, wrote:
Sunday, January 26, 2020
Theo Angelopoulos: The Great Poet of Cinema
The 24th of January marks the death anniversary of the acclaimed Greek film director Theo Angelopoulos. He was killed by a motorcycle on January 24, 2012, while he was attempting to cross a busy road in Piraeus.
Being one of the last and most characteristic representatives of modernism in Cinema, Angelopoulos was, without any doubt, the most internationally respected Greek filmmaker and one of the greatest directors of his generation. He received numerous awards with the most notable being the prestigious Palme d’Or award at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival for his remarkable film “Eternity and a Day”.
Sunday, November 18, 2018
"Peterloo": A very British massacre (Review and Trailer)
Director: Mike
Leigh. Stars: Rory
Kinnear, Maxine
Peake and Neil
Bell.
Waterloo – a field in
Belgium where in 1815
the armies of Britain,
Prussia and other European powers defeated the
armies of Napoleon Bonaparte. St Peters Field
– a square in Manchester
where on 19 August 1819
cavalry charged a crowd
of unarmed protesters
killing around 20 people.
The closeness of the two
events led to the latter
being called the Peterloo
Massacre; an event now
the subject of a feature
film, Peterloo, directed by
Mike Leigh. The events
in the field in Belgium
were made into a film
almost 50 years ago, in
a film entitled Waterloo.
A film about the events
closer to home is long
overdue.
Sunday, January 28, 2018
The Death of Stalin: Vulgar anticommunism under the veil of "comedy"
"The Death of Stalin" is the title of the anticommunist film which is going to be screened on cinemas. The two-minutes trailer of the movie is enough for someone to understand that it is another case of crude and vulgar anticommunism, of distortion and counterfeiting of History, as long as it shows Stalin as the "fear and terror of the nation" and other personalities of the time (e.g. Marshall Zhukov) as miserable caricatures.
But the text of the [film's] synopsis by the distribution company ODEON which accompanies the movie and has been published in the media is also revealing. Promoting the film, the distribution company refers to it as "a comedy based on real events": "On the night of March 2, 1953, a man is dying. A terrible stroke is wracking his entire body. He is drooling. He is pissing himself... The man is Joseph Stalin, dictator, tyrant, butcher as well a Secretary General of USSR. ‘The Death of Stalin’ is a satire about the days before the funerals of the Nation’s Father. Days that shine a sardonic light on all the madness, depravity and inhumanity of totalitarianism. Days that will see the men surrounding him fight to inherit his supreme power. And it’s all based on true events."
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