Marxism Today, 2010 Phil Collins “I was in Berlin during the 20th anniversary of the fall of the wall and I thought about what happened to the people that taught Marxism and Leninism. After ‘89 not only does that job evaporate but also their expertise and knowledge devalues at a very rapid pace. I tried to find out what happened to them, where did they go? We spoke to forty people, filmed ten and then in the final film, Marxism Today, used three. I was trying to find stories which would work in a biographical, not  analytical, reading. What the teachers thought of what happened and what became of them afterwards. We focus on three characters, one women whose husband killed himself just before the fall in ‘89. A doctor who taught political economy and then moved into the banking system and became very rich. The third set up an introduction and dating service and was the mother of an Olympic gymnast. They all have very different trajectories within the reunification.” - Phil Collins

Marxism Today, 2010

Phil Collins

“I was in Berlin during the 20th anniversary of the fall of the wall and I thought about what happened to the people that taught Marxism and Leninism. After ‘89 not only does that job evaporate but also their expertise and knowledge devalues at a very rapid pace. I tried to find out what happened to them, where did they go? We spoke to forty people, filmed ten and then in the final film, Marxism Today, used three. I was trying to find stories which would work in a biographical, not  analytical, reading. What the teachers thought of what happened and what became of them afterwards. We focus on three characters, one women whose husband killed himself just before the fall in ‘89. A doctor who taught political economy and then moved into the banking system and became very rich. The third set up an introduction and dating service and was the mother of an Olympic gymnast. They all have very different trajectories within the reunification.” - Phil Collins

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