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Too Early/Too Late

Cast

Dani�le Huillet, Bahgat Elnadi, G�rard Samaan View All

Crew

Jean-Marie Straub (Director), Jean-Marie Straub (Writer), Dani�le Huillet (Director), Dani�le Huillet (Writer) View All

Release: Feb. 17th, 1982

Runtime: 1 hour, 44 minutes

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...

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