Charts the emotional journey of a young man who falls in love with Lotte, engaged to another man. As he realizes that his passion is doomed to failure and constant pain, Werther contemplates taking the most drastic measures.
Acting
Konarske's Werther teeters beautifully between passion and pathetic desperation.
Production
Intimate German TV budget somehow amplifies the suffocating small-town atmosphere.
Director
Uwe Janson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Goethe's 1774 novel sparked a real 'Werther Effect' of copycat suicides across Europe—and this TV adaptation aired on German television, continuing that complicated legacy.
This was Janson's second Goethe adaptation; he clearly has a type, and that type is 'men who die beautifully for love.'
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