A Young Man Named Engels – A Portrait in Letters

A Young Man Named Engels – A Portrait in Letters

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 6, 1970

Runtime

0h 20m

Genres

Documentary, Animation

Original Title

Ein junger Mann namens Engels – Ein Porträt in Briefen

Production Companies

DEFA-Studio für Trickfilme, DEFA, Soyuzmultfilm

Director

Katja Georgi

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.