Plot Summary

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.

Movie Details

Original Title
Nachrichten aus der ideologischen Antike: Marx/Eisenstein/Das Kapital
Status
released
Original Language
de

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Production Companies

Suhrkamp Verlag