''Encounter with Werther'' (german: Begegnung mit Werther) is a 1949
West German
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historical
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drama film
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directed by
Karl-Heinz Stroux
Karl Heinz Stroux (25 February 1908 – 2 August 1985) was a German actor, film and theatre director, and theatre manager. As the director of the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus from 1955 to 1972 he opened the new building in 1970.(12 August 1985Gest ...
and starring
Horst Caspar
Horst Joachim Arthur Caspar (20 January 1913 – 27 December 1952) was a German actor, prominent in German theatre and film in the 1930s and 1940s. His postwar career was cut short by his sudden death at 39.
Caspar was born in Radegast, the son ...
,
Heidemarie Hatheyer
Heidemarie Hatheyer (8 April 1918 – 11 May 1990) was an Austrian film actress. She appeared in 43 films between 1938 and 1988.
Selected filmography
*'' The Mountain Calls'' (1938)
* ''Frau Sixta'' (1938)
* '' The Vulture Wally'' (1940)
* ...
and
Paul Klinger
Paul Karl Heinrich Klinksik (14 June 1907, Essen – 14 November 1971, Munich) was a German stage and film actor who also worked in radio drama and soundtrack dubbing.
Family life
His father, a civil engineer, was Karl Heinrich Klinksik; his moth ...
. It is based on the writing of the 1774 novel ''
The Sorrows of Young Werther'' by
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic. His works include plays, poetry, literature, and aesthetic criticism, as well as trea ...
.
[Gillespie, Engel & Dieterle p.672] It was released to commemorate the writer's second hundredth birthday in August 1949.
It was shot at the
Bavaria Studios
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History
The studios were constructed in the suburb of Geiselgasteig in 1919 shortly after the Firs ...
in
Munich
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and
on location in
Limburg,
Wetzlar
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and
Marburg an der Lahn
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.
The film's sets were designed by the
art director
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Paul Markwitz
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.
Cast
*
Horst Caspar
Horst Joachim Arthur Caspar (20 January 1913 – 27 December 1952) was a German actor, prominent in German theatre and film in the 1930s and 1940s. His postwar career was cut short by his sudden death at 39.
Caspar was born in Radegast, the son ...
as Werther
*
Heidemarie Hatheyer
Heidemarie Hatheyer (8 April 1918 – 11 May 1990) was an Austrian film actress. She appeared in 43 films between 1938 and 1988.
Selected filmography
*'' The Mountain Calls'' (1938)
* ''Frau Sixta'' (1938)
* '' The Vulture Wally'' (1940)
* ...
as Lotte
*
Paul Klinger
Paul Karl Heinrich Klinksik (14 June 1907, Essen – 14 November 1971, Munich) was a German stage and film actor who also worked in radio drama and soundtrack dubbing.
Family life
His father, a civil engineer, was Karl Heinrich Klinksik; his moth ...
as Albert
*
Rudolf Reiff
Rudolf Reiff (1901–1961) was a German stage and film actor.
Selected filmography
* '' Tonelli'' (1943)
* '' Freunde'' (1945)
* ''Encounter with Werther'' (1949)
* ''The Great Mandarin'' (1949)
* '' Doctor Praetorius'' (1950)
* '' Trouble in P ...
as
Amtmann as Lotte's Father
*
Paul Dahlke as
Napoleon
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*
Walter Kottenkamp
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as
Goethe
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*
Fritz Odemar
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as Graf
*
Harald Mannl
Harald Mannl (1904–1961) was German actor of film, radio and television.Feinstein p.56 He also directed two films for DEFA in East Germany in the mid-1950s, and acted in others, before returning to West Germany
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as Gesandter
*
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as Frl. von Bassenheim
*
Arthur Mentz
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as Bauernbursche
*
Friedrich Siemers as Schreiber Heinrich
*
Karl Lieffen as Bediensteter Bursche
References
Bibliography
* Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009.
* Gillespie, Gerald & Engel, Manfred & Dieterle, Bernard. ''Romantic Prose Fiction''. John Benjamins Publishing, 2008.
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German black-and-white films
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Cultural depictions of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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