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Lotte in Weimar (1975)

Name: Lotte in Weimar
Director: Egon Günther
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: 1975-05-15
Duration: 2 h 5 min
Rating: 5.8
Cast: Lilli Palmer, Martin Hellberg, Rolf Ludwig, Hilmar Baumann, Jutta Hoffmann

IMDb 5.82h 5mDrama Comedy

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Plot Summary

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) was the author of Werther, the romantic novel that was transformed into a play during Goethe's lifetime and which initiated the whole German romantic movement. The book's story tells of young love and suicide. In this East German film, based on a book by Thomas Mann, Lotte (Lilli Palmer) was the woman who served as the model for the heroine in the novel Werther. She comes to Goethe's hometown for a visit, and her experiences there eerily re-create episodes from the book. Goethe comes across as a pompous old bore, and his friends as pandering sycophants, in this very proper communist party-sponsored, anti-heroic movie.