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Too Early / Too Late

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Too Early / Too Late

6.5

1h 44m

1982

Synopsis

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

Danièle Huillet

Jean-Marie Straub

Documentary

woman director

Cast & Crew

Danièle Huillet

Danièle Huillet

as Narrator (segment A) (voice)

Bahgat Elnadi

as Narrator (segment B) (voice) (as Bahgat el Nadi)

Gerard Samaan

as Narrator (segment B) (voice)

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