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When people go to bed In a pointed nightcap
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The Young Karl Marx

When people go to bedIn a pointed nightcap And entreat their king to protect them We slip...

When people go to bed
In a pointed nightcap And entreat their king to protect them We slip festively dressed
Behind the taverns Dawdling along under the street lamps The night isn't only for sleeping The night is when it all happens A one-man show, totally reliant
on Gründgens' charismatic performance

Full Transcript

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When people go to bed In a pointed nightcap
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And entreat their king to protect them
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We slip festively dressed Behind the taverns
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Dawdling along under the street lamps
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The night isn't only for sleeping
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The night is when it all happens
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A one-man show, totally reliant on Gründgens' charismatic performance.
Duration
24 seconds
Views
32
Timestamp in Movie
00:49:00
Uploaded
Jul 12, 2025
Genres
biography, drama, history
Production
N/A

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Movie Summary

The early years of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Jenny Marx, between Paris, Brussels and London.
When morning finally dawns - The Young Karl Marx 00:18
When morning finally dawns
Goebbels permitted the film - The Young Karl Marx 00:06
Goebbels permitted the film
Don't use your sword, but your verses. They re more effective. - The Young Karl Marx 00:06
Don't use your sword, but your verses. They re more eff...
In the film, he throws down a rain of flyers - The Young Karl Marx 00:07
In the film, he throws down a rain of flyers
It shows an artist challenging the authorities - The Young Karl Marx 00:08
It shows an artist challenging the authorities
Scenes of a successful revolution in Nazi cinema. - The Young Karl Marx 00:04
Scenes of a successful revolution in Nazi cinema.
Or did they do it to keep people in a good mood? - The Young Karl Marx 00:05
Or did they do it to keep people in a good mood?
The artists, like court jesters, could more easily speak the truth, - The Young Karl Marx 00:09
The artists, like court jesters, could more easily speak the...
The night isn't only for sleeping The night is when it all happens - The Young Karl Marx 00:13
The night isn't only for sleeping The night is when it ...
With the outbreak of war the cinema grew in propaganda - The Young Karl Marx 00:08
With the outbreak of war the cinema grew in propaganda
Films which legitimised some over-stepping of limits: - The Young Karl Marx 00:07
Films which legitimised some over-stepping of limits:
"Big men", that meant major German men, - The Young Karl Marx 00:05
"Big men", that meant major German men,
Veit Harlan set the tone in "Der Herrscher" - The Young Karl Marx 00:11
Veit Harlan set the tone in "Der Herrscher"
The capitalist as leader: - The Young Karl Marx 00:07
The capitalist as leader:
That's the ruling principle of my work. - The Young Karl Marx 00:04
That's the ruling principle of my work.
Costume and sets immersed the viewers in the joy - The Young Karl Marx 00:08
Costume and sets immersed the viewers in the joy
A strategy of forgetting that no one could fully escape. - The Young Karl Marx 00:05
A strategy of forgetting that no one could fully escape.
It was all far-removed from historical reality anyway. - The Young Karl Marx 00:04
It was all far-removed from historical reality anyway.
All these films, these "big German men", were bigger than life. - The Young Karl Marx 00:06
All these films, these "big German men", were bigg...
Whoever was born to be leader, needs no other teacher - The Young Karl Marx 00:08
Whoever was born to be leader, needs no other teacher