Trop tôt/Trop tard (1981)

Documentary

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 Too Early, Too Late 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).

Updated May 23 2020

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Runtime: 100 mins Rating: 6.8

Cast

Danièle Huillet

Narrator (segment A) (voice)

Gérard Samaan

Narrator (segment B) (voice)

Crew

William Lubtchansky

Director of Photography

Caroline Champetier

Director of Photography

Robert Alazraki

Director of Photography

Jean-Marie Straub

Director

Jean-Marie Straub

Editor

Jean-Marie Straub

Writer

Jean-Marie Straub

Producer