Movie

"Surplus Value" & its Images

Der "Mehrwert" & seine Bilder

The master Russian director Sergei Eisenstein planned in 1928 to make a film about Das Kapital by Marx. Is the "political economy" made up of abstract concepts or concrete images? What images depict "commodity fetishism," "surplus value," or "primitive accumulation"?

Director

Alexander Kluge

Status

Released

Release date

12/12/2005

Original language

German