A Young Man Named Engels – A Portrait in Letters (1970)
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.
Directors: Katja Georgi, Klaus Georgi, Vadim Kurchevskiy, Fyodor Khitruk.
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Manfred Wagner as Narrator (voice) |
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Viktor Tatarsky as reads the text |
| Directing | Katja Georgi | Director |
| Writing | Vadim Kurchevskiy | Writer |
| Directing | Klaus Georgi | Director |
| Sound | Wolfgang Pietsch | Music |
| Directing | Vadim Kurchevskiy | Director |
| Directing | Fyodor Khitruk | Director |
| Writing | Klaus Georgi | Writer |
| Writing | Katja Georgi | Writer |
| Writing | Fyodor Khitruk | Writer |
| Editing | Anita Uebe | Editor |
| Camera | Werner Baensch | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Manfred Henke | Director of Photography |