Nov 06, 1970
20 min
Full-HD

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.

Category

Documentary Animation

Country

East Germany Soviet Union

Companies

DEFA-Studio für Trickfilme DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme Soyuzmultfilm

Manfred Wagner

Narrator (voice)

Viktor Tatarsky

reads the text

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