Rimini Protokoll
Karl Marx: Das Kapital, Erster Band

Can a stodgy economic treatise be turned into a disarming stage performance? Rimini Protokoll has taken up the challenge and is staging the first volume of Karl Marx's Das Kapital. A classic, it's true, but who has ever actually read it? Directors Helga Haug and Daniel Wetzel have called on eight people whose expertise comes from experience - not professional actors, but people whose lives have somehow been influenced by Marxist thinking. A former Maoist who traded in his membership card for a high-quality bespoke three-piece suit; a blind call-centre employee who dreams of taking part in Who wants to be a millionaire? Both tell their stories in a library cum living room, between the coffeemaker and the gramophone. What drove them? And in what way did the ideology color their lives?