Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Movies

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

Eduard and Charlotte live an isolated and idyllic life together. But soon Eduard feels that something is missing and he invites his friend Otto to...

A despairing scholar sells his soul to Satan in exchange for one night with a beautiful young woman.

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

In 1957 Gustaf Gründgens staged a new production of Goethe's Faust in which he once again played Mephisto, a part he had played since 1932. The...

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

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

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

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

Ragab is a doctor struggling with his financial life, he meets Nabil and discovers that he is the devil himself. They have a deal to make him the...

1989 recording of the San Francisco Opera production of Mefistofele: Boito's retelling of Goethe's Faust

Adaptation of Goethe's novel.

The neurotic director Max Karlsson tries to do a film of Goethe's "Die Leiden des jungen Werthers". He finds all actors for his melodrama - except...

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

Werther loves Charlotte, but she promised her mother on her deathbed that she would marry Albert. After the marriage Charlotte suggests that Werther...

Werther, a young German in love with poetry, is given the chance to get out of his alienating everyday life by his employment as a tutor in a rich...

Homeless, all thrown Mephistopheles is suffering from idleness and boredom. In a market where you can buy everything - from gralic to books on...

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