Too Early / Too Late
Film1982104 min6.6/10 on TMDB
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Directed by Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub
The story
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).
Cast & crew
Danièle HuilletNarrator (segment A) (voice)Bahgat Elnadi
Bahgat ElnadiNarrator (segment B) (voice) (as Bahgat el Nadi)Gerard Samaan
Gerard SamaanNarrator (segment B) (voice)Explore the crew
- Director
- Danièle Huillet
- Director
- Jean-Marie Straub
- Director of Photography
- Caroline Champetier
- Director of Photography
- William Lubtchansky
- Director of Photography
- Robert Alazraki
- Editor
- Jean-Marie Straub
- Director of Photography
- Marguerite Perlado
- Editor
- Danièle Huillet
- Writer
- Danièle Huillet
- Writer
- Jean-Marie Straub
- Producer
- Jean-Marie Straub
- Producer
- Danièle Huillet