Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Movies

The film tells the story of Faust who unites with the devil in search of ultimate wisdom. He realizes too late, that winning Gretchen's heart with...

During the time of the Peasants' Wars, the free knight Götz von Berlichingen gets into all kinds of private and political entanglements when he...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

Loosely adapted from Goethe's novel on the social conventions of marriage raised to level of symbolic parable.

Adaptation of Goethe's historical play "Götz von Berlichingen and the Iron Hand", set in the Holy Roman Empire.

In an epic tale of good versus evil, Faust sells his soul to the Devil and tries to save Marguerite from an eternity in Hell.

Faust, an old, bright but desperate man, struggles with the sense of his life. After trying all kinds of sciences he enters into a contract with the...

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

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...

Second part of Goethe's Tragedy

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

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....