Karl Marx und seine Erben

Apr 28, 2018

★ 7.0

Overview

Over the past hundred years, dramatic social upheavals have taken place in the name of Karl Marx's theories. In Western Europe, the student movement of 1968 and the Eurocommunists were inspired. And in recent times, the thinker has experienced a renaissance.

Genres

Documentary

History

TV Movie

Production Companies

neue artfilm

WDR

SWR

ARTE

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Cast

Narrator (voice)

Hansi Jochmann

Narrator (voice)

Wiebke Frost

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Jan Single

Narrator (voice)

Marco Wittorf

Self

Werner Rätz

Self

Andreas Ludwig

Self

Christina Morina

Self

Stephen Smith

Self (archive footage)

Vladimir Lenin

Self

Mathias Greffrath

Self

Zhang Shuangli

Self

Zhong Jun

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