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A Young Man Named Engels – A Portrait in Letters (1970)

Name: A Young Man Named Engels – A Portrait in Letters
Director: Katja Georgi
Genre: Documentary, Animation
Released: 1970-11-06
Duration: 20 min
Rating: 10
Cast: Manfred Wagner, Viktor Tatarsky

20 min · East Germany, Soviet Union · Dir. Katja Georgi

Documentary Animation 1970 movies

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.