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“Karl Marx's life: his revolutionary theories, romance with Jenny, and friendship with Engels.”
The Leader
领风者
6.14
9,884 rank · 4,794 viewers · 30 favorites
Drama
Romance
Historical
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Synopsis
Karl Marx's life: his revolutionary theories, romance with Jenny, and friendship with Engels.
The life of German thinker Karl Marx, focusing on his political and economic theories, his romance with Jenny von Westphalen, and his friendship with Friedrich Engels. (Source: TMDB)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 9 sampled reviews
5.7
/10
What 9 viewers settled on.
50%
recommend
Score distribution
median 6
mode 6
σ 2.54
Agreement
Polarized
σ 2.54 · split reception
The polarity gap
5.3 pts
Recommenders 8.3 · others 3.0
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Score over time
↑ 1.67
Running avg · Mar 2019 → Mar 2026
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· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 10 “The leader is a masterpiece. It tells the life story of the great philosopher Karl Marx in painstakingly personal detail. It tells how the immortal science of Marxism got its roots, and how the...”
- 9 “The Leader is a work with the ability to set any revolutionary's heart alight with pride. It is not often that these kinds of cartoons carry with them such weight, but this is no ordinary cartoon....”
- 5 “State capitalism in china is very successful. so successful that the government is facing a paradox: how can it keep calling itself the communist party when the youth is so focused on making money...”
Verbosity
Short · 11%
Medium · 44%
Long · 44%
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- Format 7 × 24′ eps × min
- Total runtime 2h 48m all episodes
- Aired Jan 2019 – Mar 2019
- Source Ona media type
- Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref. BS-14848 catalog
Produced by
- bilibili Producer