Karl Heinrich Marx (5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. His ideas played a significant role in the development of social science and the socialist political movement. He published various books during his lifetime, with the most notable being The Communist Manifesto (1848) and Capital (1867–1894); some of his works were co-written with his friend and fellow German revolutionary socialist, Friedrich Engels.
Born into a wealthy middle class family in Trier, formerly in Prussian Rhineland now called Rhineland-Palatinate, Marx studied at both the University of Bonn and the University of Berlin, where he became interested in the philosophical ideas of the Young Hegelians. In 1836, he became engaged to Jenny von Westphalen, marrying her in 1843. After his studies, he wrote for a radical newspaper in Cologne, and began to work out his theory of dialectical materialism. Moving to Paris in 1843, he began writing for other radical newspapers. He met Engels in Paris, and the two men worked together on a series of books. Exiled to Brussels, he became a leading figure of the Communist League, before moving back to Cologne, where he founded his own newspaper. In 1849 he was exiled again and moved to London together with his wife and children. In London, where the family was reduced to poverty, Marx continued writing and formulating his theories about the nature of society and how he believed it could be improved, and also campaigned for socialism—he became a significant figure in the International Workingmen's Association.
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The story takes place in the sixties, at a children's pioneer league masquerade ball. The protagonist, still in his adolescence at the time - though when he is telling the story he is an adult already - prepares to emigrate, but before, for the last time he would like to be carefreely happy in the swirling crowd of the ball - to say farewell to everything he is leaving behind. And in this crowd, amidst his masqueraded mates, he seems to recognise his family: his parents, grandmother, and grandfather. As he recalls the events of the family's history, they come alive. The ambience of the party and the farewell evokes the well-known situations embedded in the family history from the sixties - the under blanket collective listening to Free Europe Radio, family card games, the fright of nightly searches by the authorities, childhood toys, the first car in the neighbourhood, the divorce trial, the moments of liberation and homecoming. Because of the animated memories and his impressions of the pioneer league ball, our hero decides, after all the pros and cons to stay. Because he is happy here on this ball and nothing can take this away or replace it.
Keywords: 1960s, based-on-play
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After reading the diary of an elderly Jewish man who committed suicide, freelance journalist Peter Miller begins to investigate the alleged sighting of a former SS-Captain who commanded a concentration camp during World War II. Miller eventually finds himself involved with the powerful organization of former SS members, called ODESSA, as well as with the Israeli secret service. Miller probes deeper and eventually discovers a link between the SS-Captain, ODESSA, and his own family.
Keywords: 1960s, attempted-murder, based-on-novel, bayreuth-bavaria, brass-band, bribe-attempt, bridge, carbon-monoxide-poisoning, chance, child-execution
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Lulù is a real hard worker. For this reason he is loved by the masters and hated by his own colleagues. The unions decide agitations against the masters. Lulù doesn't agree till he cuts, by accident, one of his own fingers. Now, after he understood the worker's conditions, he agrees the unions and participates to the strike. He immediately is fired and, not only is abandoned by his lover, but also by the other workers. But the fights of the unions allow him under a new legislation to be hired again. At this point his mind starts giving collapse signs...
Keywords: 1970s, brutality, common-law-marriage, factory, factory-worker, finger-cut-off, fired-from-the-job, husband-wife-relationship, industrial-accident, industrialization
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In 1944, an American bomber squadron is tense and discontented from too many missions over France. Luck runs out for Capt. Stevens and his crew; they must bail out and are promptly taken prisoner. Their wily German captors, sensing that they have valuable information unknown even to themselves, use every form of velvet-glove trickery to worm it out of them. Will Stevens discover the danger? If so, what can he do about it? The fate of 100 planes depends on the answer...
Keywords: bomber, nurse, prisoner-of-war, world-war-two
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Franz Roberti is a famous orchestra conductor who has a number of girlfriends. While talking with his old music teacher, Professor Thalma, he meets Constance, an aspiring music composer. They see each other, fall in love and marry. They honeymoon all over Europe and are happy back home until Constance finds him with a society divorcee and leaves him.
Keywords: adultery, alcohol, auld-lang-syne, butler, composer, concert, divorce, drunk, heartbreak, jealousy