26 year-old Karl Marx embarks with his wife, Jenny, on the road to exile. In 1844 in Paris, he meets Friedrich Engels, an industrialist’s son, who has been investigating the sordid birth of the British working class. Engels, the dandy, provides the last piece of the puzzle to the young Karl Marx’s new vision of the world. Together, between censorship and the police’s repression, riots and political upheavals, they will lead the labor movement during its development into a modern era.
August Diehl
as Karl Marx
Stefan Konarske
as Friedrich Engels
Vicky Krieps
as Jenny von Westphalen
Olivier Gourmet
as Pierre Proudhon
Hannah Steele
as Mary Burns
Rolf Kanies
as Moses Hess
Niels-Bruno Schmidt
as Karl Grün
Alexander Scheer
as Wilhelm Weitling
Marie Meinzenbach
as Lenchen
Hans-Uwe Bauer
as Arnold Ruge
Wiebke Adam
as Mme Ruge
Aran Bertetto
as Paddy
