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Films of Ideas: "Rosa Luxemburg" with Lea Ypi
Thu 09 Oct
|Regent Street Cinema
Rosa Luxemburg (1986): Margarethe von Trotta’s biopic of the great Marxist revolutionary and intellectual Rosa Luxemburg explores the relationship between radical politics and radical ideas and the tension between political emancipation and personal emancipation.
Time & Location
09 Oct 2025, 19:00 – 21:30
Regent Street Cinema, 307 Regent St., London W1B 2HW, UK
About the event
Film screening & live podcast recording.
Rosa Luxemburg (1986): Margarethe von Trotta’s biopic of the great Marxist revolutionary and intellectual Rosa Luxemburg explores the relationship between radical politics and radical ideas and the tension between political emancipation and personal emancipation. Does a revolution require the leading of a revolutionary life?
Lea Ypi: Philosopher and best-selling author of the award-winning memoir Free: Coming of Age at the End of History. Lea Ypi’s new book is Indignity: A Life Reimagined.