Too Early Too Late

Audience Score
66
Too Early  Too Late
NR 1 hr 40 minDocumentary
Inspired by a letter by Friedrich Engels and a 1974 account of two militant Marxist writers who had been imprisoned by the Nasser regime StraubHuillet filmed this film in France and Egypt during 1980 They reflect on Egypts 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