Karl Marx City

Name: Karl Marx City
Genre: Documentary
Released: March 29, 2017
Duration: 89 min
Rating: 73

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Bond/360 | Release Date: March 29, 2017 | Not Rated

Summary: Twenty-five years after the collapse of the German Democratic Republic, New York filmmaker Petra Epperlein returns to her childhood home of Karl Marx City to find the truth about her late father’s suicide and his rumored Stasi past. Had he been an informant for the secret police? Was her childhood an elaborate fiction? As she looks forTwenty-five years after the collapse of the German Democratic Republic, New York filmmaker Petra Epperlein returns to her childhood home of Karl Marx City to find the truth about her late father’s suicide and his rumored Stasi past. Had he been an informant for the secret police? Was her childhood an elaborate fiction? As she looks for answers in the Stasi’s extensive archives and from her own family, she pulls back the curtain of her own nostalgia and enters the parallel world of the security state.… Expand

Director: Michael Tucker and Petra Epperlein

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 89 min

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The Playlist Andrew Crump

Mar 23, 2017

It’s a remarkable picture of inbound focus and outbound ambitions. Read full review

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

Mar 28, 2017

Karl Marx City is at heart a psychological family drama—the story of a tightly knit household that outlived an oppressive society, only to find itself faced with a doubt about the past that amounts to an existential quandary. Read full review

IndieWire David Ehrlich

Mar 29, 2017

In its haphazard search for facts, it happens upon a great many truths about how we see each other, and the price we pay for looking too closely. Read full review

Stephen Dalton

Mar 23, 2017

A key joy of Karl Marx City is its strong, arty aesthetic. Read full review

Jake Cole

Mar 26, 2017

Petra Epperlein's personal ties to the subject matter provides the documentary with a necessary anchor point. Read full review

Scott Tobias

Mar 23, 2017

Epperlein offers Karl Marx City as her own act of painful transparency, an essential warning about what happens to societies when ordinary citizens are being watched. Read full review

The Film Stage Diana Drumm

Mar 23, 2017

Oscillating between personal documentary and a scattered historical record, Karl Marx City leaves dramatic tension and narrative threads by the wayside in favor of casting wide thematic webs. Read full review

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