A Young Man Named Engels – A Portrait in Letters (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.

• Release Date: 1970-11-06
• Runtime: 0h 20min
• Directors: Katja Georgi, Klaus Georgi, Fyodor Khitruk, Vadim Kurchevskiy.