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Too Early / Too Late

Film

Too Early / Too Late

6.6/ 10· 321982104 min
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).

Director
Jean-Marie Straub

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Too Early / Too Late runs 104 minutes (1h 44m).
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Too Early / Too Late stars Danièle Huillet, Bahgat Elnadi, Gerard Samaan.

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