Lotte in Weimar
Lotte a Weimar
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In September 1816, the court councilor Charlotte Kestner, née Buff, comes to Weimar under the pretext of visiting her sister. In fact, Charlotte wants to see her early love, J. W. Goethe, for the first time in 44 years. With the character of Lotte in The Sorrows of Young Werther, Goethe has helped her achieve wider and not necessarily desired fame. This film is based on the 1939 novel Lotte in Weimar: The Beloved Return, by Nobel Prize-winning German novelist Thomas Mann. It was the first film ever to represent the GDR in competition at the Cannes Film Festival. The renowned Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra even played selections from Gustav Mahler’s 6th Symphony contributed to its prestige production.
DIRECTORY
Born in 1927 in Germany, he studied philosophy, German literature and educational theory at the University of Leipzig at a young age. After teaching and editorial experiences, in 1958 he was hired as a screenwriter by Deutsche Film AG (DEFA), the film company of the German Democratic Republic. Since then, he has created such successes as Der Dritte (1972, presented at the Venice Film Festival and nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film) and Lotte in Weimar (1975, presented at Cannes). Targeted by censorship, he emigrated to West Germany in 1977. He died in 2017 in Potsdam.
