Begegnung mit Werther (1949)
August 5, 1949Release Date
Plot.
Far-reaching film adaptation of Goethe's novel "Die Leiden des junge Werthers": The swarming young Werther gets to know Lotte at a festival at the village and falls in love with her. However, she is already engaged. Werther realizes that his love is hopeless and goes away. When he returns, Lotte is already married, but unhappy. Once again her love flares up, which leads to Werther becoming even more desperate. Finally, he chooses to die.
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Encounter with Werther (German: Begegnung mit Werther) is a 1949 West German historical drama film directed by Karl-Heinz Stroux and starring Horst Caspar, Heidemarie Hatheyer and Paul Klinger. It is based on the writing of the 1774 novel The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. It was released to commemorate the writer's second hundredth birthday in August 1949.
It was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich and on location in Limburg, Wetzlar and Marburg an der Lahn.
The film's sets were designed by the art director Paul Markwitz.