

Too Early / Too Late
Visit website6.6/10 • 28
1982-02-17 • 1h 44m
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).
- Directors
- Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet
- Writters
- Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub
- Editors
- Jean-Marie Straub

Too Early / Too Late
Visit website1982-02-17 • 1h 44m
6.6/10 • 28
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).
- Directors
- Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet
- Writters
- Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub
- Editors
- Jean-Marie Straub
Top Billed Cast
View CreditsDanièle Huillet
Narrator (segment A) (voice)
Bahgat Elnadi
Narrator (segment B) (voice) (as Bahgat el Nadi)
Gerard Samaan
Narrator (segment B) (voice)
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- Original Language
- French
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- Keywords
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