Film
Lotte in Weimar

A man and two women sitting on a bench/still from the film "Lotte in Weimar"
© DEFA Stiftung/Ingo Raatzke, Wolfgang Ebert

Mann at the Movies

Goethe-Institut Chicago

Lotte in Weimar (1975) is an East German film directed by Egon Günther and produced by DEFA. It is based on the 1939 novel, Lotte in Weimar: The Beloved Returns by German novelist Thomas Mann.

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Charlotte Kestner, the love of Goethe's youth, became famous because she was the real-life Lotte represented in his renowned The Sorrows of Young Werther. At age 44 she travels to Weimar to see Goethe again, and high society's posturing and Goethe's personal history lead her to an unexpected conclusion.

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Film courtesy of the DEFA Film Library at UMass Amherst.

Details

Goethe-Institut Chicago

150 N Michigan Ave
Suite 420
Chicago IL 60601
USA

Language: German with English subtitles
Price: Free and open to the public

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