With 2012’s Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter sadly yet to have spawned a Marvel-style cinematic universe, Karl Marx and neck-chomping Dracula types might seen unlikely movie bedfellows.
But the two collide like never before in a 2021 Berlinale Encounters title that also boasts one of the festival’s most eye-catching film loglines.
According to Julian Radlmaier, director of the 'vampire Marxist comedy'Bloodsuckers, for all his theorizing about class struggle, Germany’s most famous political philosopher (and Beard of the Year winner 1869-76) wasn’t averse to dropping a bit of metaphorical vampirism into his works. "I was actually reading Das Kapital, and I noticed that he speaks a lot about vampires and other Gothic characters in history," the.
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