Film screening Young Goethe in Love

Goethe © Beta Cinema

04/28/17
6:30pm

Goethe-Institut New York

Germany, 1772 – the young and boisterous Johann Goethe is sent by his father to a sleepy little town to mend his ways after failing his law exams. At first, he tries to do his best at the Supreme Court and even convinces his superior Kestner. But then Lotte enters his life and nothing is the same as before after they fall in love. However, Johann is unaware that Lotte is in fact already engaged to Kestner ...

Director: Philipp Stölz, Germany, 2009/10

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