A Young Man Named Engels – A Portrait in Letters

Documentary, Animation · 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.

Starring

Manfred Henke, Manfred Wagner, Fyodor Khitruk, Tatarsky Viktor Vitalievich, Fyodor Khitruk, Vadim Kurchevskiy, Vadim Kurchevskiy

Director

Klaus Georgi