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The Novel of Werther

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'The Novel of Werther' (French: 'Le Roman de Werther') is a 1938 French historical drama film directed by Max Ophls and starring Pierre Richard-Willm, Annie Vernay and Jean Galland. It is based on the 1774 novel 'The Sorrows of Young Werther' by Goethe.Gillespie, Gerald & Engel, Manfred & Dieterle, Bernard. 'Romantic Prose Fiction'. John Benjamins Publishing, 2008. p. 24. . .

The film was made by Nero Film, a company run by German exiles who had left following the Nazi rise to power.

Cast



*Pierre Richard-Willm as Werther

*Annie Vernay as Charlotte

*Jean Galland as Albert

*Paulette Pax as Aunt Emma

*Jean Prier as President

*Edmond Beauchamp as murderer

*Georges Bever as chamberlain

* as portraitist

* as Werther's colleague

* as the right one

*Henri Guisol as Schertz, the clerk

*Roger Legris as Franz, valet

* as little Gustave

*Maurice Schutz as le sonneur

*Lonce Corne asle majordome

*Philippe Richard as Grand Duke

*Charles Nossent as le cocher

*Lon Larive as comedian

*Georges Vitray as bailiff

* as girl

*Henri Beaulieu

*Henri Darbrey

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*Robert Rollis

References




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