A Young Man Named Engels – A Portrait in Letters (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.

Released Nov. 6, 1970 20 min 3+

Genres: Animation, Documentary, Short

Keywords: mdblist.imdb-short, tmdb.biography, tmdb.historical, mdblist.two-actors

Production Companies: DEFA-Studio für Trickfilme, DEFA, Soyuzmultfilm

Country: Germany
Languages: German, Russian