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Almost 10 years. To find the right way to make it though I thought that Baldwin film I wanted to make a very realistic film to be true for true to the story so you know to make yours. Sort of bio pic about evolution that I do. Know you can't do in film so we had to make it in a way that white audience would get you would understand what it means to be green young people in the century and the fight to change the world story. BALDWIN In fact about by a bench will learn from. By making 2 films to at least try to give fundamentals younger generation well and in fact to whether it's a documentary or a feature or even though you are educating people you're revealing the lives of the men and in the case of the marks the women play a very prominent role as well but you still have to tell a good story and that's a tough task with with Karl Marx because 1st of all in the heart of capitalism here I think I did stay as Mark says very misunderstood any He's very misunderstood among what I would call a Marxist revolutionaries because I mean whether it's we have a Communist Party or the Marxist it's still pick your pick your progressive as to the frame that they put Karl Marx in but your film covers a particular era in Marx's life so what brought you to this I was reading in your bio you felt like you sort of grew up with Marx and studied Marx extensively so obviously it's a longstanding interest but why Marx and how did you settle on this particular frame of his life because this particular move the beginning of. I would say to. Me an employed. By the image of the old. I call that you know being in every dogmatic so-called communist countries which have nothing to do with Mox so I have to come back to the beginning of all this green young man and women who decided to 1st of all to revolve to rebel against the world that was around you know it's real in the 19 year century where there is a lot of repression and there is a time in in certain countries there's censorship and maist is basically somebody Young Jr is you know there is nothing else to say he was a gentle At 19 he got his Ph D. And his own teachers were saying you know if you want to meet. A girl and all the bull one person you better find this call box Choi he's a bright mind all the style and they decided you know there is no way we can continue to do absurd to analyze but we need to engage and that was the beginning of this and credible long story and for need to get back to that is key to understand as well what is going on today in a world where science history politics is seen as nonexistent anybody can pretend say whatever comes up in mind without having to prove it including the president of this country and it's a tough sell right now to ready reflect with intelligence I don't like intelligence is a bad word even Exactly. So I had to bring something against that you know ignorance and when I say ignorance is not about people who didn't have access to education I'm talking about people who even went. To universities but decided to stay ignorant and to rule of us and pretending that they know what they are doing and they are not I was just going to say one thing that strikes me about why this film is so important is that it really sets these ideas in the context of their time because we live in a time where obviously there are still workers struggles all over the world but in this particular time I think most people have no idea the system that people were living under at that time it's basically feudal you have monarchies you have aristocracies you have a class system which ruled and everything and there were no unions there were no workers' rights that was exactly the beginning of all you know within the city like Manchester where it's almost the birth of capitalism you know the 1st big factories textile factories and in Manchester you have exactly what capitalism is and will continue to be for centuries is the creation of riches the creation of merchandise the creation of wealth there where incredible wealth accumulated Manchester and at the same time in the same CD you could go to a certain street it's as if you were in a slum in the 3rd world men women children were going bad food in with you know you could rent a cog to sleep for 23 hours and the children were working in factories young children you know 11 and they could work you know 14 hours in a factory under the was condition ever so this is the world Marx and Engels. Or serving and they were part of it angles Why was the Irish worker and clue. He went he was capable of doing one of his 1st major work which was and I do think about the condition of the working class in Manchester at the time so it's the beginning you know don't forget a good time the revolutionary aware of was the the offseason not the work of the workers were considered you know like so even I knew goals yet so so when Martin and those decided to organize themselves there is not not yet such a thing as a workers' movement you know there is an art is a movement so the D.L. Going to be instrumental in creating that for us Forbes that will later give you you know 6 etc So it's in the very important time and and the development and the evolution of the idea and the child was really have to put those evolution in the film and stay in cinema of course the idea was not to I don't want to write a Ph D. Or to do a documentary because the state in banal and forms of cinema well and also getting to know Marx and the young man he was around 26 there around this time he was a parlor you know the family is is $2424.00 and the poet is a journalist a philosopher of course at a time when discourse and ideas this is what they did they even in the upper classes they had salons in this case there are meetings houses they're active it activist groups of the day but he's also a family man and his wife was a baron's daughter so she certainly is an unusual person the women are very strong and they're very important to the story as well and talk talk about we get a glimpse of Mark's the man the man with the family and you need not an easy personality either let's face it. You know that you know like many geniuses they they can be very impatient. You know because they they spank a 100 times the quick again you so they and to be impatient and and Muffy That was somebody who love ignorance who lol. Although he could be arrogant himself but it was about really. To go straight to what is essential you know he didn't like comedy around that and yes he could be very brusque with his colleagues and he had a very fateful meeting of course when he met angles the 2 of them together form a unique partnership of opposites working toward a common currency is talk a little bit about angles because he came from his father owned a factory he was part of the bush was easy and yet. It was much more than that is it father was the big capital is he had several factories in Germany and also in Manchester and he was you know Angus could have made a fortune just you know being the good son of Mr angle but he'd decided otherwise he was part of the young and telling of the time when who could not accept the giving situation as something that should stay for ever and like Marx like Janie they decided to to break with their own a social class that the real sacrifice people it's easy to say well you know I sympathize with with the pool I sympathize with with the working class but they went further than that they risked everything they were not Salone lefties they were really they decided to you know to cut all of the link if necessary and Mosman you know you know there is this famous sentence Ray said you know in his later years when he was still working on the capital and he was very sick and he say Well nobody has ever ruled so much about money we are having so little. To live with right and it really. Tells a lot about his own life you know he lost 2 children who died in very young age you know less than 2 years old and fall for the sake of one is boy he had they had to put in as a slave but they have to rely on money to be able to buy a coffin for the baby so it was really a hard life and but they did as it they you know it was their decision from the get go and and you see it was also the character of Jenny you know she she knew that what was the deal with Mox you know she had she could have married anybody she was very well known in Korea she was a beautiful woman his father had money half brother became a minister of interior of course so she had everything to be a totally wealthy and happy lady and but no she made a choice and she said Well that was important to her and and she didn't want to do to be just bald by this you know wealth and wanted a life of meaning let's talk about the cast you've got a wonderful group of actors in fact I just saw the key Cripps I think is her name I just saw her in the phantom read yesterday as well and August steel he was familiar to audiences through Inglorious Basterds another these actors because they really are a wonderful group that you've managed to put together yes well we had really extensive casting throughout Europe and August I knew very early on and I preferably take particularly in Europe in the U.S. It's different but in Europe I tend to take actors who have a great experience in T.X. Because they are so good in knowing a. To build a cactus and to build it not just through dialogue but through their bodies through the way they walk through the way the grass and center are so I knew that that was the direction in August is 1 of the greatest actors in Germany and then Europe so and the 2nd thing I want to have actors who really spoke all 3 languages you know not just to not just one but all 3 so they pick all 3 to speak perfectly fine dream and English so and so that you could really sometimes not improvise but I could change the dialogue on on set and without having to go you know with somebody helping them how to pronounce hard to say it in the not the language so that was really genius in order to work with them and be at ease and and be as natural as possible and the last thing it it is exactly the reality because when you read those letters their letters there with you know in the middle of a letter in German they would throw a French that or an English phrase you know that's the way they really wrote and lived you know they were really international already at the time they were repaired before Rock existed as an institution and also I can see how you would relate to that because looking at your bio born in Haiti you've lived in the Congo Germany the United States you you're very global in your perspective too so maybe that's part of what drew you to this subject as well that you've you've seen a lot through the through the eye one of many countries to help Yes that did help and it gives me a sort of this tense as well to be you know when you you have a point of view that these as well are from you know one side and the other side and. So you you all of you know that gives you an advantage to create to understand the differences and use the differences sometimes and of course I felt at home using all those 3 languages in my real life it happened to me all the time. You know you can hear my bad English but it's because you know it takes me always you know 23 weeks to to get my accent. The same in German I speak German I speak French and so but I really use the language as a tool not it's not important for me if I make mistakes it's an important too to you know to be able to express myself and to understand what somebody is telling me and you have also a very much more direct connection to people so I of course are used for the well it's a very human film and when I particularly like about it is people who maybe only know about Marx to political rhetoric on both sides of the coin can really get to know a little bit more of the history and I think for a lot of people this can really open the door to a curiosity about Marx you know I recently saw the National Theatre of Great Britain just in a wonderful play called Young Marx with Rory canary it's kind of farcical it's very funny and I was looking in some of the notes here about your film and it mentions that I think it was Edmund Wilson described Marx as the greatest satirist since Jonathan Swift and we know normally don't associate humor with Karl Marx but that. Isn't is an important part of it as well. It's a guy 1st always an incredible writer any Shakespeare fanatic What of it game way to daughters what recites Shakespeare you know so I was yes he was. Many of these time you know and very at some point recognize people forget but when he finished the 1st book of the Capitol he send one to Tao we. Send him in to send him is book as well and we donate are saying I hope that both of our work will help this world become a better world that's the man that was in the middle of his time he wrote a telegram of congratulation to Abram Ingle after his election you know and speaking about slavery and the fact that I by many did reject every you know I saw he was a man of his time so that's important to say that's why the film had to be very truthful you know I didn't want to and then all the characters bare their real names we didn't invent one thing all character and there is nothing in the found that was not written credited or research properly I wanted people to be at ease and watching history in the making and hopefully I hope that people will be curious enough to go and get the book and read about it the same way you know a lot of people start reading James Baldwin after the film and I hope the same thing happened here too because it's it's really important to understand that we know so little about how the world is functioning how all society is functioning and it's surely in the time where those who should know like the current president are the one confusing everybody you know so that's a time where knowledge is even more important than before and it's the only way to push back that's sort of ignorance veiled that is invading us day after day on every issue but I'm really a very hopeful about you know the youth and I'm sure. About young people who all revolting you knew all thinking of you know and by the way who gets it you know it has to be understood. The relationship between making profit selling arms. Actually of pollution will refuse to stop you know if you know they are getting money. But young children you know $1718.00 they got it and that could lead us to the box and I doubt it's exactly what's going on exactly and you know it's a it's a beautiful I know our time is limited and I have to let you go but I do want to give you a standing invitation to come back to talk about your next project of course you're an extraordinary documentarian with the James Baldwin film which I highly recommend to everybody if you haven't seen it to get a copy of that and see it but you bring that document Terry an authenticity and truth as you say to this feature the young Karl Marx It's a beautifully shot film as well you really do get a sense of the authenticity of the period and the history because if we don't know our history then we certainly can't move into the future with that knowledge that so important of where this all came from in this age where everything has to be instant Internet instant this instant that it's so important to look back on the the history and a time when these ideas really shape the world that we're living in for better and or. Thank you very much thank you I appreciate it thank you Raul and again my guest Israel packed the filmmaker behind the young Karl Marx thank you so much roll it so it's a wonderful film and I think so informative but also very very entertaining and engaging as well thank you thank you. Very interesting he's a fascinating filmmaker. Oscar nominated of course for the James Baldwin documentary and his latest film the young college marks his plane at Langley is royal or Lemley is playhouse 7 in Pasadena every once and she'd see this only get rid of their own preconceived idea. Absolutely it's entertaining it's informative and I think it will really dispel a lot of misconceptions are out the origins of this great great philosopher artists a journalist a writer be on call marks by my guest. 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Lifetime but they're here there are elements of it here I don't know how how long it's going to last I don't know if it portends something in the future but there is something going on and our body politic right now and if we donate there we have an extreme danger right now and not having a radio station like a P. F. K. On the air to be a part of the national dialogue and even the local dialogue throughout Southern California on the regional dialogue down there to to include voices and perspectives that you know about this radio station a historic radio station I'm not sure of a radio station like a P.S.K. Could have really made it anywhere else but Los Angeles right in the great shirt the progressive tradition of our struggles but we also have a really great progressive tradition down in Los Angeles is well known not sure if K.P. a Cake and I made it anywhere else more than 50 years ago but at the same time I don't know if L.A. Is this wonderful place that we all love is what it is without the influence decade after decade of a radio station like a P.S.K. It is a part of your cultural fabric it is a part of your tradition your historic tradition it doesn't receive money from the government it doesn't receive money from corporations it doesn't take corporate under writings you'll never hear that this show on the history of anti fool is brought to you by Chevron because that one doesn't support those type of things and 2 we don't take money from Chevron it's you the listener it's right at the heart of what we do is the foundation of the sifaka radios the 1st radios network to successfully operate from listener funds alone and today I am telling you in this moment of need to support this radio station so that we can keep it going during these incredibly critical times 81898557358189855735 for a pledge of $180.00 again we will send you my. Which of the letters in politics not nature I know David back I appreciate it a little embarrassed but the truth is I have a team here I work with people like Deanna Martinez the great producer. Who's our Yes writer producer and we've had some many other people who work with us as well everyone doing what we can and that's when you do what you can so that that $180.00 pledge we're really excited this and you just we add and it's $25.00 I'm really excited to say welcome to the family if it's $500.00 I'm really excited said my friend you did what you can because it's going to take everyone doing what they can and think of it as a $500.00 pledge or a $1000.00 pledge pledge and for those folks who perhaps cannot afford a contribution right now so again 818-955-7358 line 89855735 always on line at Katie at Kate at large you know about Southern California in K P F K one of the things that I don't know if ever mentioned. When I've been on air with you but of course the Bay Area has an incredible tradition of being a progressive metropolitan area left metropolitan area and for many decades it's true that the oppressive leanings of the Bay Area were overwhelmed by the population in the post World War 2 or the population explosion in southern California which would have voted much further to the right on balance Well that changed in Southern California and Southern California is just really close the gap in terms of being almost as progressive in left leaning I mean of course you got include Orange County in there so we're not there yet but aren't counties changing too and now southern California joins Northern California and being a very progressive was especially when taken the measure of the United States politics metropolitan areas in the in the country N.K.P. 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Which can add to the diversity from very small numbers because of obviously all the diplomats from the various countries that's that's an exceptional in that international capitals but you know in terms of the diversity of significantly sized communities in Southern California and you look at humanity obviously due to globalization due to the change in transportation I believe this is probably the most diverse metropolitan area in the world and K P F K is central to the evolution of this metropolitan area in terms of again the fact of incorporating communities otherwise had really no voice anywhere other than K P F K So call $818985573581895.00 K.P.H. 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One of us out here in Southern California what has happened is that our sister station in New York basically there was a large debt there was a crude a node to the Empire State Building which is the place where the station transmits from and there were questions and reasons to challenge the size of that debt it went to court and the decision went against. 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We're getting close to the end of the fund I do you feel it in the air people do you feel it I don't know happy a good like we are that's right we are on our way to wrapping up our wonderful 2018 Winter Fun drive and I am in studio with my wonderful mazing awesome dearest friend can you talk any more Maggie that's how it's coworker friends and a calmer. Confidant. Already gone now but we're going to have a lot of fun with sour and we're going to be doing it best out of this winter fine drive and folks it's almost over it's almost over so we love you we appreciate you while. What can you say. But I will have a lot to say Christine because we really do have some amazing things to talk about we do end and join the course you know the course of this Funder I have we have some definite standouts so to speak of course everything the.