On the 200th anniversary of Karl Marx's birth, the docu-drama paints a multifaceted portrait of the most influential German thinker of modern times. The world-famous actor Mario Adorf embodies the equally contradictory and contradictory world spirit, in the dichotomy of prophetic confidence and fear of failure. An exciting cinematic journey through his life and work.

Mario Adorf
as Karl Marx

Oliver Posener
as Der junge Karl Marx

Sarah Hostettler
as Eleanor Marx

Lutz Blochberger
as Friedrich Engels

Nina Petri
as Lenchen

Jele Brückner
as Laura Lafargue

Martina Delišová
as Jenny von Westphalen

Johannes Klaußner
as Frederick Demuth

Ruth Marie Kröger
as Jenny Marx

Knud Riepen
as Sozi