Too Early / Too Late
1982•1h 44m•6.6•Released
Documentary
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
Writer
Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet
Languages
German, French, Arabic
Cast
Danièle Huillet
Narrator (segment A) (voice)
Bahgat Elnadi
Narrator (segment B) (voice) (as Bahgat el Nadi)
Gerard Samaan
Narrator (segment B) (voice)
Production
Producer
Jean-Marie Straub
Producer
Danièle Huillet
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