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Lotte in Weimar (film)
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Lotte in Weimar () is a 1975 East German drama film directed by Egon Günther and produced by DEFA. It was entered into the 1975 Cannes Film Festival. It is based on the 1939 novel, Lotte in Weimar: The Beloved Returns by Nobel Prize–winning German novelist Thomas Mann.
Cast
Lilli Palmer as Lotte
Martin Hellberg as Goethe
Rolf Ludwig as Mager, the waiter
Hilmar Baumann as August, Goethe's son
Jutta Hoffmann as Adele Schopenhauer
Katharina Thalbach as Ottilie von Pogwisch
Monika Lennartz as Charlotte, Lotte's daughter
Norbert Christian as Professor Johann Heinrich Meyer
Hans-Joachim Hegewald as Dr. Riemer
Walter Lendrich as Ridel, Landkammerrat
Dieter Mann as Karl, the butler
Angelika Ritter as Klaerchen, the lady's maid
Annemone Haase as Amalie Ridel
Gisa Stoll as Mrs. Riemer
Christa Lehmann as Mrs. Meyer
References
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1975 films
1975 drama films
East German films
German drama films
1970s German-language films
Films based on German novels
Films based on works by Thomas Mann
Films directed by Egon Günther
Works about Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Cultural depictions of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Films set in the 1810s
The Sorrows of Young Werther
1970s German films
