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

movie - first aired/released 1970-11-06 - 20 min - audience 10.0

Documentary, Animation

Directed by Fyodor Khitruk, Katja Georgi, Klaus Georgi, Vadim Kurchevskiy

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.