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Encounter with Werther is a film of genre Drama directed by Karl Heinz Stroux with Horst Caspar
Encounter with Werther (1949)
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Add to a movie listEncounter with Werther (German:Begegnung mit Werther) is a 1949 West German drama film directed by Karl-Heinz Stroux and starring Horst Caspar, Heidemarie Hatheyer and Paul Klinger. The book was set around the writing of the novel The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Actors
Horst Caspar
(Werther)
Heidemarie Hatheyer
(Lotte)
Rudolf Reiff
(Amtmann - Lotte's Father)
Paul Dahlke
(Napoleon)
Karl Lieffen
(Bursche)
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