
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.
A Young Man Named Engels – A Portrait in Letters was directed by Katja Georgi, Klaus Georgi, Fyodor Khitruk and Vadim Kurchevskiy.
A Young Man Named Engels – A Portrait in Letters runs for 20min, and was released in 1970.
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