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

overview : 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.

Release Date : Nov 06, 1970

Runtime : 20m

Genre : Documentary  Animation  

Companies : DEFA-Studio für Trickfilme, DEFA, Soyuzmultfilm

Countries : East Germany, Soviet Union

Keywords : biography, historical