A Young Man Named Engels – A Portrait in Letters

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.

Directors

Katja Georgi, Vadim Kurchevskiy, Klaus Georgi, Fyodor Khitruk

Writers

Vadim Kurchevskiy, Fyodor Khitruk, Katja Georgi, Klaus Georgi

Released

November 6, 1970

Language

German