A Young Man Named Engels – A Portrait in Letters (1970)

With the young Friedrich Engel’s letters and drawings from the years between 1838 and 1842, a unique cinematic portrait is created. The viewer thus gets to know the young Engels personally, learning about the significant moments of his development from a bourgeois-liberal upbringing to the theoretical partner of Karl Marx. Later be awarded the Gold Dove at the International Leipzig Documentary and Short Film Week.

Released

1970-11-06

Genres

Documentary, Animation

Runtime

20 min

Status

Released

Directed / written by

Katja Georgi, Klaus Georgi, Vadim Kurchevskiy, Fyodor Khitruk

TMDB rating

10.0/10 from 1 votes