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Nachrichten aus der ideologischen Antike – Marx/Eisenstein/Das Kapital
GERMANY · 2008

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

Alexander Kluge
Marxist theory Soviet cinema unrealized film projects literary adaptation ideological history
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Synopsis

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 note

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