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News from Ideological Antiquity - Marx/Eisenstein/The Capital

News from Ideological Antiquity - Marx/Eisenstein/The Capital

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

20089h 30m
Documentary

Status

Released

Release

2008

Runtime

9h 30m

Storyline

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.

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Details

Status
Released
Runtime
9h 30m
Nov 30, 2008
Languages
German
Director
Alexander Kluge
Alexander Kluge
Production
Suhrkamp Verlag
Suhrkamp Verlag
Production Countries
Germany

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