Young Werther Archives

Sometimes, the biggest lessons in love can come from literature's biggest villains, like the title character of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 18th-century novel The Sorrows of Young Werther Surprisingly enough, the story has been adapted into several incarnations, but nothing has been adapted for American audiences until now, at least according to the film's director[...]

Ever since José Avelino Gilles Corbett Lourenço read The Sorrows of Young Werther, he was surprised no filmmaker or TV showrunner adapted the Johann Wolfgang von Goethe classic for modern audiences. What became a prime opportunity, the writer and director decided to modernize the story into Lionsgate's Young Werther, which follows a lovestruck writer, Werther (Douglas Booth), who falls[...]

His latest is the José Avelino Gilles Corbett Lourenço romantic comedy Young Werther Based on the 18th-century novel The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the Lourenço film updates the tale to the 21st century that follows the title character (Douglas Booth), a carefree writer who pursues a relationship with Charlotte (Alison[...]