太早，太迟
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早到迟退
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Troppo presto/Troppo tardi
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Trop tôt, trop tard
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Demasiado temprano, demasiado tarde
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Too Early / Too Late
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Too Early/Too Late
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Demasiado temprano/Demasiado tarde
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Zu früh, zu spät
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Troppo presto, troppo tardi
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Cedo Demais/Tarde Demais
director:
Danièle Huillet
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Jean-Marie Straub
playwright:
Danièle Huillet
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Jean-Marie Straub
actor:
Danièle Huillet
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Bahgat Elnadi
/
Gerard Samaan
genre:
Drama
region:
France
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Egypt
language:
French
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German
length: 1h 40m
release date: 1981-11-08
IMDb: tt0083230
Trop tôt, trop tard
Overview
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).