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A Young Man Named Engels – A Portrait in Letters

1970·Directed by Katja Georgi, Vadim Kurchevskiy, Klaus Georgi, Fyodor Khitruk

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Released
November 6, 1970
Runtime
20m

About A Young Man Named Engels – A Portrait in Letters

  • 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.

Directors
  • Katja Georgi
  • Vadim Kurchevskiy
  • KGKlaus Georgi
  • Fyodor Khitruk
Writers
  • Vadim Kurchevskiy
  • Fyodor Khitruk
  • Katja Georgi
  • KGKlaus Georgi
Original title
Ein junger Mann namens Engels – Ein Porträt in Briefen

Principal cast

In billing order
  • Manfred WagnerNarrator (voice)
  • Viktor Tatarskyreads the text
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