A Young Man Named Engels – A Portrait in Letters

A Young Man Named Engels – A Portrait in Letters

20 mins | Documentary, Animation | Nov. 6, 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.

A Young Man Named Engels – A Portrait in Letters

20 mins | Documentary, Animation | Nov. 6, 1970

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.
Producers DEFA, Soyuzmultfilm, DEFA-Studio für Trickfilme
Original title Ein junger Mann namens Engels – Ein Porträt in Briefen
Directors Katja Georgi, Klaus Georgi, Vadim Kurchevskiy, Fyodor Khitruk
Writers Katja Georgi, Klaus Georgi, Vadim Kurchevskiy, Fyodor Khitruk

Cast

Manfred Wagner

as Narrator (voice)

Tatarsky Viktor Vitalievich

as reads the text