Encounter with Werther

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Encounter with Werther
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Directed by Karl-Heinz Stroux
Written byHermann Gressieker
Karl-Heinz Stroux
Based on The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Produced byGeorg Fiebiger
Starring Horst Caspar
Heidemarie Hatheyer
Paul Klinger
Cinematography Friedl Behn-Grund
Ernst W. Kalinke
Edited byErwin Niecke
Eva Marie Stroux
Music by Wolfgang Fortner
Production
company
Nova-Filmproduktion
Distributed byWilly Karp-Film
Release date
  • 5 August 1949 (1949-08-05)
Running time
88 minutes
CountryWest Germany
Language German

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 bicentennial of the writer's birthday in August 1949.

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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.

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References

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

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