Martin Eden
Toronto International Film Festival
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2h 8m
Directed by Pietro Marcello • Arthouse • 2020 • Italy • Italian with English subtitles
Starring Luca Marinelli, Jessica Cressy, Denise Sardisco
Winner of the Best Actor award at the Venice Film Festival and adapted from the 1909 novel by Jack London, "Martin Eden" follows a dashing young proletarian caught between his dreams of rising above his humble origins to become a writer, his love for the woman he hopes to marry, and his political reawakening that leads to a conflict with her bourgeois family.
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