Documentary ·Animation · East Germany · 1970 · 20m

A Young Man Named Engels – A Portrait in Letters

Ein junger Mann namens Engels – Ein Porträt in Briefen

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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.

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