The Novel of Werther
The Novel of Werther is a 1938 French historical drama film directed by Max Ophüls and starring Pierre Richard-Willm, Annie Vernay and Jean Galland. It is based on the 1774 novel The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe.
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 Périer 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
- Léonce Corne asle majordome
- Philippe Richard as Grand Duke
- Charles Nossent as le cocher
- Léon Larive as comedian
- Georges Vitray as bailiff
- as girl
- Henri Beaulieu
- Henri Darbrey
- Robert Rollis