Encounter with Werther
Directed byKarl-Heinz Stroux
Written byHermann Gressieker
Karl-Heinz Stroux
Based onThe Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Produced byGeorg Fiebiger
StarringHorst Caspar
Heidemarie Hatheyer
Paul Klinger
CinematographyFriedl Behn-Grund
Ernst W. Kalinke
Edited byErwin Niecke
Eva Marie Stroux
Music byWolfgang Fortner
Production
company
Nova-Filmproduktion
Distributed byWilly Karp-Film
Release date
5 August 1949
Running time
88 minutes
CountryWest Germany
LanguageGerman

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.[1] It is based on the writing of the 1774 novel The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.[2] 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.

Cast

References

  1. โ†‘ Bock & Bergfelder p.33
  2. โ†‘ Gillespie, Engel & Dieterle p.672

Bibliography

  • Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.
  • Gillespie, Gerald & Engel, Manfred & Dieterle, Bernard. Romantic Prose Fiction. John Benjamins Publishing, 2008.


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