A Young Man Named Engels – A Portrait in Letters

A Young Man Named Engels – A Portrait in Letters (1970)

Radar 19High volatility0h 20mDocumentary · Animation

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A quieter title still finding its audience, though the rating rests on a thin sample, so treat it as provisional.

Synopsis

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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Radar score19/100
Quality signal64/100
Audience rating10.0
Votes counted1
Trust signalHigh volatility

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