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Too Early / Too Late

Name: Too Early / Too Late
Genre: Documental
Released: 1982-02-17
Duration: 104 min
Rating: 6.6
Cast: Danièle Huillet, Bahgat Elnadi, Gerard Samaan

Trop tôt, trop tard

1982 1 h 44 min

Documentary

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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).