A Young Man Named Engels – A Portrait in Letters

(1970)

★ 10 IMDb · 1 votes

Genres: Documentary, Animation

Year: 1970

Runtime: 21 мин

Country: East Germany, Soviet Union

Director: Katja Georgi, Klaus Georgi, Вадим Курчевский, Фёдор Хитрук

Cast: Manfred Wagner, Виктор Татарский

Plot

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.