Goethe’s “Die Leiden des jungen Werther” (The sorrows of young Werther) is a classic of world literature. But it also typifies the sorrows of learners dealing with set books school or university. In ...

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.

Filmmaker José Avelino Gilles Corbett Lourenço has taken the 18th-century novel "The Sorrows of Young Werther" and brought the story to modern times with Young Werther starring Douglas Booth, Alison ...