A Young Man Named Engels – A Portrait in Letters

20m
DocumentaryAnimation
10

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

Manfred Wagner
Narrator (voice)
Viktor Tatarsky
reads the text

Crew

Katja Georgi
Director, Writer
Klaus Georgi
Director, Writer
Fyodor Khitruk
Director, Writer
Vadim Kurchevskiy
Director, Writer
Anita Uebe
Editor
Werner Baensch
Director of Photography
Manfred Henke
Director of Photography
Wolfgang Pietsch
Music

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