Review of The Young Karl Marx

Another biopic, as much about Engels as about Marx, during the period 1843-8, and leading up to the foundation of the Communist League and the publication of the Communist Manifesto.

Mainly faithful to the history, and some nice depictions of meetings and characters...a walk-on part for Bakunin, a bit more of Proudhon, and so on.

I particularly liked the portrayal of Mary Burns, Engels's long term partner, and the hint about the oddness of his relationship with her sister Lizzie. The woman playing Jenny von Westphalen is good too.

Considering it's two hours long and mainly consists of besuited men talking in German it didn't drag at all.

Watched in the Common House at Springhill, via informal distribution. A minor problem was that the file was too big to transfer to a USB stick, even one big enough to hold it, so I had to bring my whole PC down to the Common House and connect that to the projector.