A Young Man Named Engels – A Portrait in Letters
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 Billed Cast
Manfred Wagner
Narrator (voice)
Viktor Tatarsky
reads the text
Featured Crew
Katja Georgi
Director
Klaus Georgi
Director
Fyodor Khitruk
Director
Vadim Kurchevskiy
Director
Anita Uebe
Editor
Katja Georgi
Writer
Klaus Georgi
Writer
Fyodor Khitruk
Writer
Vadim Kurchevskiy
Writer
Werner Baensch
Cinematography
Manfred Henke
Cinematography
Wolfgang Pietsch
Music