Lotte in Weimar

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 17491832 was the author of Werther the romantic novel that was transformed into a play during Goethes lifetime and which initiated the whole German romantic movement The books 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 Goethes hometown for a visit and her experiences there eerily recreate episodes from the book Goethe comes across as a pompous old bore and his friends as pandering sycophants in this very proper communist partysponsored antiheroic movie