Nachrichten aus der ideologischen Antike: Marx/Eisenstein/Das Kapital Poster

Nachrichten aus der ideologischen Antike: Marx/Eisenstein/Das Kapital

Not Rated Documentary

Starring: Sophie Rois, Hannelore Hoger, Helge Schneider

Writer: N/A

Release Date:
November 30, 2008
Ratings:
6.8 / 10
Director:
Alexander Kluge
Companies:
Suhrkamp Verlag

Overview

Alexander Kluge’s News from Ideological Antiquity begins with Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein’s ambitious but unrealized plan to combine Karl Marx’s Capital and James Joyce’s Ulysses. For over nine hours, the film expands in concentric circles as Kluge, his guests, interlocutors and monologists make associative links on a range of topics that starts from a filmic discussion of Eisenstein’s notes.