They're making a fillum about the young Karl Marx. His life from 1830 to 1848. It says so here :
http://crookedtimber.org/2007/05/24/karl-marx-the-pre-beard-years/#more-5900 This comment is what caught me : -
"I think the biggest problem with the film will, indeed, be casting; where, after all, can you find actors with left-wing sympathies who can realistically portray an ambitious young dilettante with pretensions of political grandeur?"