News from Ideological Antiquity - Marx/Eisenstein/The Capital

The read

It runs long at 9h 30m.

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 notes.

Ratings

Key crew

• Alexander KlugeDirector

Cast

• Sophie RoisSelf
• Hannelore HogerSelf
• Helge SchneiderSelf