A Young Man Named Engels – A Portrait in Letters (movie)
Ein junger Mann namens Engels – Ein Porträt in Briefen- Production country: East Germany, Soviet Union
- Producer: Katja Georgi , Klaus Georgi , Fyodor Khitruk , Vadim Kurchevskiy
- Production companies: DEFA-Studio für Trickfilme, DEFA, Soyuzmultfilm
- Genre: Documentary, Animation
- Release date: 11/6/1970
- Run time: 20 min.
Movie description
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.
