Deimantas Narkevičius was studying sculpture in Vilnius in the early 1990s when the Velvet Revolution led to the demise of the social realist genre. Almost all of the city’s Soviet era monuments were immediately removed, and this young artist abandoned sculpture and began exploring filmmaking. Yet some of the sculptural vestiges of the Communist era have survived – including the gigantic bust of Marx in Chemnitz, Germany – a town once known as Karl Marx City. Created in 1971, this enormous bronze bust is situated directly on a pedestal. Seven meters high, seven meters wide, and nine meters deep, the philosopher’s bust weighs a full forty tons. Narkevičius’ film presents people’s reactions to the monument, then and now; in doing so, it explores the extent of social changes in both East and West. Narkevičius had originally proposed removing the bust located in Chemnitz and temporarily transporting it to Münster for a 2007 sculptural project. Although this project proved impossible to realize, Marx in Münster remains an idea that captures our imagination.