A Young Man Named Engels – A Portrait in Letters (1970)
1970-11-06
East Germany, Soviet Union
20 Min.
PG-13
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.
Cast
Narrator (voice)
reads the text