The young Goethe

Young law student Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is in love with Lotte, but Albert Kestner also laid an eye on her. Note that he was not yet enobled by the time the movie is set...

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It is the year 1772. The young Johann Goethe (Alexander Fehling) studied law in Strasbourg, although he studies a lot less seriously than the other things of life.  So it happens that the young fellow doesn't pass the doctoral exam and his father (Henry Hübchen) sends him to the provincial town of Wetzlar.  Goethe learns, what is really important in life.

Definitely a movie I will watch more than once and will anticipate the DVD release. And now: off to the movie theater!