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

A Young Man Named Engels – A Portrait in Letters

1970

Documentary Animation

Synopsis

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.

Credits

Director

Fyodor Khitruk

Katja Georgi

Klaus Georgi

Vadim Kurchevskiy

Cast

Manfred Wagner as Narrator (voice)

Viktor Tatarsky as reads the text

Crew

Manfred Henke (Cinematography)

Werner Baensch (Cinematography)