Literature Film Series
Celebrating German literature and authors, the literature film series accompanies the Bay Area Book Festival. The series features two wonderful screen adaptations of Goethe and Schiller classics, the brilliant “Me and Kaminski” by director Wolfgang Becker, as well as the popular “Inkheart” written by Cornelia Funke.
PLOT:
1772: The 23-year-old law student, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, flunks his oral exams. His angry father sends him to the Imperial High Court in Wetzlar. Goethe, who dreams of a career as a poet and has to digest the rejection of his play "Götz von Berlichingen", falls in love with Charlotte Buff. But her father has already promised her to another man. Goethe reacts to his misfortune by writing "The Sorrows of Young Werther" — and becomes an overnight success of German literature.
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