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A Young Man Named Engels – A Portrait in Letters

Ein junger Mann namens Engels – Ein Porträt in Briefen

Release: 1970-11-06 ·Runtime: 20m
Documentary Animation

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.

Production Countries

East Germany Soviet Union

Production Companies

DEFA-Studio für Trickfilme
DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme
Soyuzmultfilm