Top Cast
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Mady Christians
Friederike
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Paul Hörbiger
Pfarrer Brion
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Hans Heinz Bollmann
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
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Veit Harlan
Herzog Karl August von Weimar
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Eduard von Winterstein
Hauptmann Knebel
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Adele Sandrock
Madame Schöll
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Ferdinand Bonn
Kaiserlicher Rat Goethe
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Ida Wüst
Magdalena
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Else Elster
Overview
Based on Franz Lehar's operetta, about the first woman whom the great German writer Goethe fell in love with.
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