

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.
News from Ideological Antiquity - Marx/Eisenstein/The Capital was directed by Alexander Kluge.
News from Ideological Antiquity - Marx/Eisenstein/The Capital holds an average rating of 6.8/10 on TMDB, and it lands best with fans of documentary. Join the discussion below to add your take.
News from Ideological Antiquity - Marx/Eisenstein/The Capital runs for 9h 30min, and was released in 2008.
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