Release Date

30 Nov, 2008

Runtime

09:30: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

Alexander Kluge’s News from Ideological Antiquity begins with Russian 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.

Original Title

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