Lotte in Weimar

Streaming video - 1975

Charlotte Kestner (played by Lilli Palmer) was the love of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s youth, who became famous as Lotte in his renowned epistolary novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther, published in 1774. After four decades, in late summer 1816, Charlotte travels to Weimar to see Goethe again. The posturing of high society she finds there and her disappointing encounter with her former love lead her to an unexpected conclusion: she no longer loves him. This film is based on the 1939 novel LOTTE IN WEIMAR: The Beloved Returns, by Nobel Prize–winning German novelist Thomas Mann. It was the first film ever to represent the GDR in competition at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival. The renowned Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra even play...ed selections from Gustav Mahler’s Sixth Symphony contributed to the prestige production.

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Genres
Feature films
Published
[San Francisco, California, USA] : DEFA Film Library 1975.
2021.
Language
German
Other Authors
Egon Günther (film director), Lilli Palmer (actor), Martin Hellberg, Rolf Ludwig
Online Access
A Kanopy streaming video
Cover Image
Item Description
Title from title frames.
Film
In Process Record.
Physical Description
1 online resource (streaming video file) (124 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Format
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Access
AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY BY IOWA CITY AND RESIDENTS OF THE CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS OF JOHNSON COUNTY, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, HILLS, AND LONE TREE (IA).