Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Movies

Set against the haunting beauty of Teignmouth’s rugged coastline, this short film captures an intimate journey from isolation to...

A young man races to save his son's life, but death – incarnated in the child's imagination as the titular Erl King – calls unceasingly.

The young and rebellious Werther is passionately, but hopelessly, in love with Lotte. Although he knows that she is married to somebody who can offer...

A doctor in early 19th-century Germany becomes infatuated with the sister of a man he unintentionally killed and bargains with the Devil incarnate to...

The film tells the story of Faust who unites with the devil in search of ultimate wisdom. He realizes too late, that winning Gretchen's heart with...

Adaptation of Goethe's historical play "Götz von Berlichingen and the Iron Hand", set in the Holy Roman Empire.

During the time of the Peasants' Wars, the free knight Götz von Berlichingen gets into all kinds of private and political entanglements when he...

Riding outside, the princess and the court juggler Honorio discover a fire in the marketplace. Honorio kills a tiger that has escaped from the...

God and Satan war over earth; to settle things, they wager on the soul of Faust, a learned and prayerful alchemist.

While cycling through a dark forest at night, a young boy is visited by der Erlkönig, a harbinger of death. He asks for his father to save him...

A three-episode adaptation of Goethe's novel.

Eduard and Charlotte live an isolated and idyllic life together. But soon Eduard feels that something is missing and he invites his friend Otto to...

A Bremen production of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's "Torquato Tasso". The theme of the drama is—in addition to the love of the young Tasso for...

Herr Werther, a new magistrate to the Grand Duchy of Walheim who is a violinist and poet, seems to have fate on his side as he meets and pursues a...

After an architect (Fabrizio Bentivoglio) is invited to the home of his associate, the harmony of the place comes undone with the visitor's...

Forbidden love, wrongdoings and anguish: the Opernhaus Zürich ventures into late nineteenth-century French romanticism with Werther by Jules...

Six days in the life of Wilhelm: a detached man without qualities. He wants to write, so his mother gives him a ticket to Bonn, telling him to live....

The three main soloists have voices on a scale that can compete with these flashy production values – White and Kasarova, in particular, sing...