The Leader (2019)

Season 1

"The Leader" tells the legendary story of the life of Karl Marx, the "millennial thinker". Marx is not only a great man, but also a person of flesh and blood. His obstructed love with Jenny and his almost missed friendship with Engels have become legends.

Released Jan. 28, 2019 Episode 24 min None+

Genres: Animation, Drama, History, War

Keywords: imdb.karl-marx, imdb.chinese-animation, imdb.donghua, imdb.historical-figure, imdb.19th-century, imdb.politics, imdb.marxism + 21 more, imdb.web-series, imdb.communist-manifesto, imdb.communism, imdb.communist, imdb.leader, imdb.slice-of-life, imdb.reference-to-karl-marx, imdb.political-drama, imdb.original-series, tmdb.communism, tmdb.19th-century, tmdb.political-drama, tmdb.donghua, mdblist.has-trailer, tmdb.france, tmdb.england, tmdb.belgium, tmdb.prussia, tmdb.censorship, tmdb.class-conflict, tmdb.1800s

Production Companies: bilibili, Wawayu Animation

Network: bilibili

Country: China
Languages: Mandarin

IMDb

7.0

/79/

Trakt

/10/

TMDb

/4/

Zhong Jun
Director

Shan Xin
Jenny Marx (voice)

Sheng Feng
old Friedrich Engels (voice)

Sheng Guo
Ferdinand (voice)

Tong Yin
Powell (voice)

Chen Siyu
Friedrich Engels (voice)

Chang Rongshan
young Karl Marx (voice)

Teng Xin
Karl Marx (voice)

8.0

S1E1 - Different Youth

Starts depicting Karl Marx's funeral, then flashbacks to Trier High School, where Marx is giving his graduation speech. As Jenny von Westphalen hears his words, she remembers their together. After the discourse, Jenny invites Marx to a ball, where they dance together and Marx reveals he intends to go to the University of Bonn. Later, Jenny's brother, Ferdinand, who dislikes Marx's peasant background, expels Marx from the party when she is absent. They secretly meet each other and Marx promises he will marry her. Marx is disillusioned when Jenny arrives later at his departure and he cannot see her. At Bonn, Marx becomes fascinated by Immanuel Kant's philosophy, but gets involved in bar fights and spends a lot of money. This makes his father, Heinrich, force Marx to transfer to the more serious and academic University of Berlin to study law. There, Marx befriends Bruno Bauer and abandons Kantian philosophy in favor of G.W.F. Hegel's one.

Jan. 28, 2019, midnight