YOUNG GOETHE IN LOVE

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Germany

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Fri, Mar 11th at 6:00pm

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Astrida Orle Tantillo in person!

  1. YOUNG GOETHE IN LOVE
  1. (GOETHE!)
  2. 2010, Philipp Stölzl, Germany, 100 min.
  3. With Alexander Fehling, Miriam Stein

This lively biopic traces the great author's impetuous early years, including his struggle to become a writer despite his father's disapproval, his haphazard pursuit of a law career, and the intense romance with Lotte Buff (played with great vivacity by Stein) that inspired his hugely successful novel The Sorrows of Young Werther. Director Stölzl takes liberties with the facts for the sake of dramatic coherence, and, as in his previous film NORTH FACE, demonstrates great visual flair in rendering natural beauty and period settings. Cast against type, Moritz Bleibtreu (RUN LOLA RUN) plays Goethe's priggish rival Albert Kestner. In German with English subtitles. Special advance screening courtesy of Music Box Films. 35mm widescreen. (MR)

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Professor Astrida Orle Tantillo will lead an audience discussion after the film. Ms. Tantillo is Professor of Germanic Studies and History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The current President of The Goethe Society of North America, she has published extensively on Goethe, including her latest book Goethe's Modernisms.