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A Young Man Named Engels – A Portrait in Letters (1970)
Directed by Katja Georgi, Vadim Kurchevskiy, Klaus Georgi, Fyodor Khitruk
Documentary, Animation · 20m
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
Viktor Tatarsky
Crew
- Director
- Katja Georgi, Vadim Kurchevskiy, Klaus Georgi, Fyodor Khitruk
- Writer
- Vadim Kurchevskiy, Fyodor Khitruk, Katja Georgi, Klaus Georgi
- Director of Photography
- Werner Baensch, Manfred Henke
- Editor
- Anita Uebe
Details
- Original title
- Ein junger Mann namens Engels – Ein Porträt in Briefen
- Release date
- 1970-11-06
- Runtime
- 20m
- Genres
- Documentary, Animation
- Original language
- DE
- Spoken languages
- German, Russian
- Countries
- East Germany, Soviet Union
- Production
- DEFA-Studio für Trickfilme, DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme, Soyuzmultfilm