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Too Early / Too Late

Too Early / Too Late

Feb 17, 1982 1h 44m
6.6
27 votes

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).

Title Too Early / Too Late
Companies
Countries Egypt, France
Keywords woman director
Danièle Huillet

Danièle Huillet

Narrator (segment A) (voice)
Bahgat Elnadi

Bahgat Elnadi

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

Gerard Samaan

Narrator (segment B) (voice)