Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Movies

Inspired by Goethe's early romantic play Clavigo, Roland Petit's ballet recounts the agonies of a weak-willed lover torn between the contradictory...

On the outskirts of Weimar, Edouard and Charlotte, an aristocratic couple united after both becoming widows, invite two guests to their home: a...

Eternal Variations: "Demon", "Theseus" and "Faust" The third short story "Faust" is the author's interpretation of Goethe's tragedy.

A conquering woman of love, power, and fame is challenged by the devil, as he too wants to conquer all. Even the devil learns that there is no wrath...

Ballet performed to Dukas' "The Sorceror's Apprentice".

The three main soloists have voices on a scale that can compete with these flashy production values – White and Kasarova, in particular, sing...

This animated short is a visual representation of Goethe's poem, The ErlKing that uses sand-on-glass animation set to the music of Franz Schubert....

Radiant mezzo-soprano Susan Graham and dashing Italian tenor Marcello Giordani are unlucky lovers in La Damnation de Faust, Hector Berlioz’s...

Charts the emotional journey of a young man who falls in love with Lotte, engaged to another man. As he realizes that his passion is doomed to...

Set against the haunting beauty of Teignmouth’s rugged coastline, this short film captures an intimate journey from isolation to...

A young man races to save his son's life, but death – incarnated in the child's imagination as the titular Erl King – calls unceasingly.

Adaptation of Goethe's novel.

Herr Werther, a new magistrate to the Grand Duchy of Walheim who is a violinist and poet, seems to have fate on his side as he meets and pursues a...

Second part of Goethe's Tragedy

Werther was one of the last feature films that Jean-Pierre Lajournade made for television. The Lajournade's version of Werther makes a critical...

The director, Roland Schwab, has created his version of Hell. The set is like a high iron walled hanger and the stage is continually occupied with...

Alain Guingal conducts the Orchestre du Teatro Regio di Torino in this production of Massenet's opera based on the novel 'The Sorrows of Young...

A re-telling of the classic tale of Faust in all of two minutes by French filmmaker Alice Guy.