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Young Goethe in Love
Directed by
Philipp Stölzl
Not Rated
2011
1h 42m
Drama
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Romance
,
and more
6.6
64%
66%
6.1
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After aspiring poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe fails his law exams, he's sent to a sleepy provincial court to reform. Instead, he falls for Lotte, a young woman who is promised to another man.
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Cast of Young Goethe in Love
Alexander Fehling
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Miriam Stein
Lotte Buff
Moritz Bleibtreu
Albert Kestner
Volker Bruch
Wilhelm Jerusalem
Burghart Klaußner
Vater Buff
Henry Hübchen
Johann Kaspar Goethe - Vater
Hans-Michael Rehberg
Gerichtspräsident Kammermeier
Anna Böttcher
Hausmädchen
Stefan Haschke
Merck
Xaver Hutter
Freund Goethes
Karl Karliczek
Postverwalter
Guido Lambrecht
Schneider
Axel Milberg
Verleger
Josef Ostendorf
Promotionsprüfer
Oscar Weidner
Oskar Buff
Vitus Wieser
Borgmann
Christoph Heckel
Professor 2
Sebastian Kaufmane
Student 1
Jonas Hien
Student 2
Gerald Fiedler
Kutscher in Strassburg
Young Goethe in Love Ratings & Reviews
The New Republic
Stanley Kauffmann
Stylistically, the most engaging aspect of the picture is Stlzl's direction.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Calvin Wilson
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.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
Pain plus time, this film reminds us, can result in poetry.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
What was Sturm and Drang then veers close to camp and kitsch now.
Arizona Republic
Bill Goodykoontz
The story of a talented but not yet mature young man who stumbles upon the topic that would lead to his fame: love, and the loss of it.
Chicago Reader
Ben Sachs
Like a porcelain dish commemorating a famous person, this biopic has little to teach us about the great German writer but sure makes him look adorable.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
More diverting than it is deep...
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
You needn't know a thing about Goethe or his works to enjoy the picture.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
"Young Goethe in Love" is a delight on its own terms, even if it has little to do with the real Goethe; here is a randy young man not a million miles apart from Tom Jones.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
We get a classic situation, but no less potent for its being familiar. As always, the personalities make or break it, and here they make it.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
Turns one of the greatest geniuses of German literature into a love-struck rapscallion.
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
It drowns in swoony clichs.
NPR
Jeannette Catsoulis
Charming in a way that American romantic comedies have all but forgotten, Young Goethe in Love is by turns cute, campy and endearingly cliched.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
"Young Goethe" looks great, and the cast is appealing. But the story is riddled with clichs and fabrications, like a duel between Lotte's two suitors.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
Mr. Fehling, tumbling from puppy dog eagerness into weepy, inky self-pity, never quite rises to the requirements of the role, which may be hopelessly incoherent in any case.
Wall Street Journal
John Anderson
It's ... unworthy of Mr. Stlzl, who amid all the facile antics does manage to show his directorial mettle, if only in a single and critical scene...
AV Club
Keith Phipps
Whatever its basis in fact, there's nothing to Young Goethe In Love's story that dozens of other films haven't done before, and better.
The Hollywood Reporter
John DeFore
Highbrow pedigree is mostly window dressing for a commercial period romance about Germany's literary giant.
Village Voice
Melissa Anderson
That this film was originally titled Goethe! should give you a sense of how much silly Sturm und Drang boosterism awaits.
Slant Magazine
Andrew Schenker
Philipp Stlzl's film takes both Goethe's genius and the inevitable superiority of the brand of romanticism that marked his early work as a given.
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