Lotte in Weimar
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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.
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Edited by Rita HillerShot by Erich GuskoScored by Karl Ernst SasseDesigned by Harald Horn
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17 unique people credited
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Lilli Palmer
as Charlotte Buff Kestner
Monika Lennartz
as Charlotte Kestner
Martin Hellberg
as Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Hilmar Baumann
as August Goethe
Jutta Hoffmann
as Adele Schopenhauer
Katharina Thalbach
as Ottilie von Pogwisch
Irene Freymann
as Henriette von Pogwisch
Victor Dei
as Stephan Schütze
Thomas Neumann
as Ferdinand Heinke
Beatrice Brandenburg
as Annchen Brandt
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