A Young Man Named Engels – A Portrait in Letters
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.
- Year: 1970
- Country: East Germany, Soviet Union
- Genre: Documentary, Animation
- Studio: DEFA-Studio für Trickfilme, DEFA, Soyuzmultfilm
- Keyword: biography, historical
- Director: Katja Georgi, Vadim Kurchevskiy, Klaus Georgi, Fyodor Khitruk
- Cast: Manfred Wagner, Viktor Tatarsky