Movie: Two Marxists in Hollywood

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Ben Taylor
Ben Taylor

Bertolt Brecht

Bryan Yoshi Brown
Bryan Yoshi Brown

Sergei Eisenstein

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    Two Marxists in Hollywood

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    Russian avant-garde filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein and German playwright Bertolt Brecht recount the brief portions of their lives they spent in Hollywood trying to make art that was both radical and popular.

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    2015-09-03

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