Charlie Marx and the Chocolate Factory (2009)
• January 1st, 2009 • 0h 27min
Documentary
Overview
Charlie Marx and the Chocolate Factory started as an investigation of the link between politics and chocolate, at the Karl Marx Confectionary Factory in Kiev, Ukraine. Since access to the factory was denied, the project had to be re-considered, re-invented or re-enacted. Mostly made of archival footage and re-enacted performances based on the company's website, the film merges what was left of the initial idea with what has been collected and realized instead. It borrows from the genres of video art, 'Man on the street' interview, direct address, corporate film, essay, and music video, without legitimately belonging to any of them. The film unravels as a reflection on its own failure, and yet keeps on investigating what has always been at stake: the shift from public to private property (and from analog to digital technology), dialectics of permanence and change, language as a mirror of ideology, and post-Soviet oligarchy culture.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
The Certainty of Probabilities
Released on: 2021-06-14
Documentary
1968, The Socialist Republic of Romania. Women catch up on the latest tendencies in beachwear, the y...
Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory
Released on: 1895-03-22
History, Documentary
Working men and women leave through the main gate of the Lumière factory in Lyon, France. Filmed on ...
The Red Elvis
Released on: 2007-02-13
Documentary
A documentary on the late American entertainer Dean Reed, who became a huge star in East Germany aft...
Chernobyl 30 Years On: Nuclear Heritage
Released on: 2015-05-06
Documentary, History, TV Movie
Thirty years after the Chernobyl disaster, which occurred on the night of April 26, 1986, its causes...
The KGB Connections: An Investigation into Soviet Operations in North America
Released on: 1981-06-08
Documentary
Documentary - This 1982 film explains the KGB infiltration of America. Who they are, what they are d...
Leninland
Released on: 2013-11-30
Documentary
At the peak of Perestroika, in 1987, in the village of Gorki, where Lenin spent his last years, afte...
There is the Metro!
Released on: 1935-05-17
Documentary
Early documentary about the Moscow metro: the early project, the development and the people working ...
I Am a Truck
Released on: 1953-01-01
Documentary
Worldy renowned for his masterpiece The Housemaid (1960), Kim Ki-young debuts with his first short f...
Winter of a slacker
Released on: 1974-04-01
Documentary
At the beginning of the 70s, Sahia Studio produced a number of social investigations commissioned by...
Let All Children Smile
Released on: 1957-01-01
Documentary
The film's protagonists are the orphaned children taken into custody by the state and institutionali...
Soviet Hippies
Released on: 2017-06-01
Documentary
The hippie movement that captivated hundreds of thousands of young people in the West had a profound...
Little Potato
Released on: 2017-03-11
Documentary
Wes Hurley's autobiographical tale of growing up gay in Soviet Union Russia, only to escape with his...
Žižek!
Released on: 2005-11-18
Documentary
ŽIŽEK! trails the thinker as he crisscrosses the globe, racing from New York City lecture halls, thr...
Stanisław Lem: Autor Solaris
Released on: 2016-11-02
Documentary, History
An account of the life and work of the Polish writer Stanisław Lem (1921-2006), a key figure in scie...
Man with a Movie Camera
Released on: 1929-05-12
Documentary
A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzli...
Manufactured Landscapes
Released on: 2006-09-09
Documentary
MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES is the striking new documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edw...
Kymatica
Released on: 2009-02-01
Documentary
Ben Stewart, the bright young musician and philosopher who brought us the sleeper hit "Esoteric Agen...
Alfred
Released on: 1986-12-31
Documentary
Short biographical documentary about the life of Alfred Florstedt and his life as a progressive comm...
On Rubik's Road
Released on: 2010-04-05
Documentary
Rubiks’ Road is a bicycle path built in the 1980s and named after Alfreds Rubiks, leader of the Latv...