A Young Man Named Engels – A Portrait in Letters

Film

A Young Man Named Engels – A Portrait in Letters

XG · SU
Age rating
0+
Director
Katja Georgi
Year
1970

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.

Top cast

Directed by

Katja Georgi, Klaus Georgi, Vadim Kurchevskiy, Fyodor Khitruk

Written by

Vadim Kurchevskiy, Klaus Georgi, Katja Georgi, Fyodor Khitruk