Friedrich Schiller - Eine Dichterjugend

Release Date: 1923-03-26

Overview: In his film version, Curt Goetz shifts the focus away from the poetic output towards the young Friedrich Schiller himself: on the misery of his soul whilst a pupil of the ducal military academy, his opposition to the strict physical drill and the narrow intellectual confines of the "Karlsschule", his juvenile passion for the works of Shakespeare, Klopstock and Lessing, his anger at unjust authorities, his devotion to women, and finally his inability to cope with financial matters

Rating: 5 / 10

Cast

Theodor Loos

as Friedrich Schiller

Hermann Vallentin

as Herzog Karl Eugen von Württemberg

Isabel Heermann

as Gräfin Franziska von Hohenheim

Max Pategg

as Johann Kaspar Schiller, Werbeoffizier

Ilka Grüning

as Elisabeth Dorothea, seine Frau