(Alexander Fehling plays the young and tumultuous Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)As the world’s largest dedicated art movie house, Ster-Kinekor Cinema Nouveau presents audiences with a wide range of content that appeals to the mind and soul - and every so often directly to the heart!
Cinema Nouveau audiences are in for a romantic indulgence with Young Goethe in Love. To be screened at Ster-Kinekor Cinema Nouveau, the multi award winning film co-written and directed by Philipp Stölzl of Richard Wagner - Rienzi, der letzte der Tribunen , stars Alexander Fehling and the engaging Miriam Stein.
The film, co-written with Christoph Müller and Alexander Dydyna, has been nominated for numerous awards and has won Gold in the German Film Awards and in the German Film Critics Association Awards.
Goethe is Germany’s most famous poet and philosopher, yet there has never been a pertinent film about this extraordinary personality – until now. The film is based on Goethe’s semi-autobiographical masterpiece The Sorrows of a Young Werther and tells the story of a young man who achieved his artistic success as a result of his greatest love pangs.
Germany 1772 - the young and tumultuous Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Alexander Fehling) aspires to be a poet; but after failing his law exams, is sent away by his father (Henry Huebchen) to mend his ways. Unsure of his talent and eager to prove himself, Goethe soon wins the praise and friendship of his superior Kestner (Moritz Bleibtreu). But then Lotte (Mirian Stein) enters his life and nothing is ever the same. However, the young lovers are unaware that her father (Burghart Klaußner) has already promised Lotte’s hand to another man.
According to Müller – who also co-produced the piece, “The film is based for the most part on actual events. But if a Goethe expert were to say that a scene never happened, that’s the wrong way to approach our film. We were more concerned about showing truths, which are more important than pure facts. You can’t get close to historical characters with facts alone. It was like that with Amadeus and Shakespeare in Love.”
This approach has created a classical piece that inspires the audience. As the promo for the film says, “As a student he was a disappointment, as a poet he was a failure, as a romantic he was hopeless! And it took a broken heart to inspire him to greatness!”
Head for Ster-Kinekor Cinema Nouveau at Gateway and witness the thought provoking story of Goethe as he not only falls in love with a woman but is also set on the path to artistic greatness.
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