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 : November 6, 1970
Runtime : 20m
Genre : Documentary, Animation
Companies : DEFA-Studio für Trickfilme, DEFA, Soyuzmultfilm
Countries : East Germany, Soviet Union
Keywords : biography, historical