Too Early / Too Late
1982, French. Directed by Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub.
Inspired by a letter by Friedrich Engels and a 1974 account of two militant Marxist writers who had been imprisoned by the Nasser regime, Straub-Huillet filmed this film in France and Egypt during 1980. They reflect on Egypt’s history of peasant struggle and liberation from Western colonization, and link it to class tensions in France shortly before the Revolution of 1789, quoting texts by Engels as well as the pioneering nonfiction film Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895).
- Runtime
- 1h 44m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- French
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- Released
- 17 February 1982
- Original title
- Trop tôt, trop tard
- Country
- Egypt, France
- Written by
- Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub
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Too Early / Too Late isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 17 February 1982. (Checked 9 November 2026.)
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Who directed Too Early / Too Late?
Too Early / Too Late (1982) was directed by Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub and stars Danièle Huillet, Bahgat Elnadi, Gerard Samaan.