Trop tôt/Trop tard

Feb 17 1982 G 1h 40m

Documentary

Inspired by a letter by Friedrich Engels and a 1974 account of two militant Marxist writers who had been imprisoned by the Nasser regime, Straub-Huillet filmed this film in France and Egypt during 1980. They reflect on Egypt’s history of peasant struggle and liberation from Western colonization, and link it to class tensions in France shortly before the Revolution of 1789, quoting texts by Engels as well as the pioneering nonfiction film Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895).

Plot

A sequence of shots of rural landscapes accompanied by readings of texts about the struggles of poor farmers.

Written by

Friedrich Engels, Mahmoud Hussein

Directed by

Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub

Cast

Danièle Huillet, Bahgat Elnadi, Gérard Samaan

Crew

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Production Countries

France, Egypt

Languages

Deutsch, Français

Awards

N/A

Scores

# of Votes

701

Average Rating

5.5 out of 10

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