The “Sorrows of young Werther” might well have turned into a motivational ... degree in Literature, Philosophy and Art History in Bonn and Bielefeld; has worked in German cultural relations since 1995 ...

Consider the illustrations of Johann Wolfgang von Goeth's 1774 epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther: tragic scenes drawn by artists so taken by the story of unrequited love and death that ...

José Avelino Gilles Corbett Lourenço is a Toronto-based writer and filmmaker whose debut film, Young Werther, reimagines Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's classic novella The Sorrows of Young ...

Arguably one of the most insufferable protagonists in literature is the title figure in Johann Wolfgang Goethe's "The Sorrows of Young Werther" - a martyr to unrequited love who ultimately commits ...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s 1774 “The Sorrows of Young Werther” is one of the great tragic novels in literary history. For Canadian writer-director José Avelino Gilles Corbett Lourenço ...

The young and rebellious Werther is passionately, but hopelessly, in love with Lotte. Although he knows that she is married to somebody who can offer her a secure future, Werther tries to be near her.

Based on the 1774 novel The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Young Werther follows the time-honoured tradition of modern-day cinematic adaptations of old texts. The film ...

But director José Avelino Gilles Corbett Lourenço’s feature debut – a modernization of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther, which we’re told off the top was the ...