Goethe!

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Goethe!

Released Nov 4, 2011

1h 40m

Drama

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Student Johann Wolfgang von Goethe falls in love with Lotte, but Albert has feelings for her also.

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Stanley Kauffmann

The New Republic

Stylistically, the most engaging aspect of the picture is Stlzl's direction.

Jun 19, 2013

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Calvin Wilson

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

An old-fashioned romance that's easy to like even if you have no interest in German literature, illegal duels or the more romantic aspects of committing suicide.

Rated: 3/4

Feb 17, 2012

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Moira MacDonald

Seattle Times

Pain plus time, this film reminds us, can result in poetry.

Rated: 3/4

Jan 19, 2012

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Jack Fleischer

Battleship Pretension

If you read all the assigned books in your high school literature class, there's plenty of inside baseball here for you to appreciate. On top of that if you like your love stories period, bittersweet, and star-crossed this is a great movie.

Mar 24, 2021

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Kelly Jane Torrance

Washington Examiner

Young Goethe seems to take even more liberties with the facts than most pictures in the genre. But, also like many films of the type, its charm and energy are hard to resist.

Rated: 2.5/4

Jan 4, 2019

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Witney Seibold

CraveOnline

It's just as gorgeously shot, just as clever, just as frothy and dynamic as the period pieces of 15-20 years ago.

Rated: 8.5/10

Aug 25, 2012

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Alise H

Stunning visuals, costumes, and storyline. 100% will watch again. The movie being in German didn't bother me at all, in fact I only picked it because I am learning German.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/25/25

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Lanfranco C

This movie describes well "The Sorrows of Young... Goethe"

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

03/13/24

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Rezensionen H

The movie "Goethe!" certainly profits from good acting but really does not depend on it, it‘s just a nice thing to have. At some points throughout its plot it strongly conflicts with the historical acuracy of this story, but those changes can largely be explained by it being a movie and as such made to sell and not as something you would have needed to read Goethe‘s biography beforehand. And also these changes help to keep the film modern and spice up the plot, which probably was an intention with the romance scene. All in all it is enjoyable and it doesn't hurt to watch it as long as you don‘t take all the contents of the film for given historical facts.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

05/07/23

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Audience Member

Um bom filme para entender a obra do grande Goethe!

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/27/23

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Audience Member

The movie Goethe is a wonderful movie that had great plot and amazing charters. One of the scenes made me feel a little bit uncomfortable because when i had turned my head back to the movie two of the characters were doing it in the dirty while it rained . I honestly thought it was messed up how that girl was playing around with Goethe and then got engaged to the one rich guy which made him pretty depressed and then he died and the book he was writing was published after he died and it was given to his father all around it was a good movie

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/18/23

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Audience Member

Personally this wasn't my kind of movie. However I know there are many people out there that LOVE movies full of drama, romance and conflict. Now with those three things put together I believe that this could end up being one's favorite movie, but sad to say I am not one to love those types of movies.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/27/23

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Synopsis

Student Johann Wolfgang von Goethe falls in love with Lotte, but Albert has feelings for her also.

Director: Philipp Stölzl
Producer: Christoph Müller, Helge Sasse
Screenwriter: Christoph Müller, Philipp Stölzl, Alexander Dydyna
Distributor: Music Box Films
Production Co: herbX film GmbH, Erfttal Film, Senator Film Produktion GmbH, Goldkind Filmproduktion GmbH & Co. KG München, Magnolia Films, Warner Bros., Seven Pictures
Genre: Drama
Original Language: German
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 4, 2011, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 22, 2012
Box Office (Gross USA): $160.4K
Runtime: 1h 40m

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