With sparkling widescreen cinematography and gorgeous sets and costumes, this delightful romantic romp captures the magic—and heartbreak—of first love. Director Philipp Stölzl (North Face) returns to the very wellspring of Romanticism—Goethe's autobiographical masterpiece The Sorrows of Young Werther—and conjures up a beguiling and refreshingly innocent period romance. In 1772 Germany, the young and tumultuous Johann Goethe (Alexander Fehling, Inglourious Basterds) aspires to be a poet, but after failing his law exams he is sent by his father to a sleepy provincial court to mend his ways, clerking for Judge Kestner (Moritz Bleibtreu). But then the lovely Lotte (Miriam Stein) enters his life and sparks fly. However, the young lovers are unaware that her father has already promised Lotte's hand to another man. Fehling is wonderful in the role of Goethe, burning with a passion and intelligence that would turn his first romantic experience into a novel that was a sensation throughout Europe and would launch the Romantic movement. (Fully subtitled)

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Director: Philipp Stölzl

Cast: Alexander Fehling, Miriam Stein, Moritz Bleibtreu, Volker Bruch, Burghart Klaussner, Henry Hübchen, Hans-Michael Rehberg, Linn Reusse

MPAA Rating: NR

Run Time: 1hr 42mins

Release Year: 2010

Country Of Origin: Germany

Studio: Music Box

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