Friedrich Schiller - Eine Dichterjugend (1923)
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
Cast
Theodor Loos
Friedrich Schiller
Hermann Vallentin
Herzog Karl Eugen von Württemberg
Ilka Grüning
Elisabeth Dorothea, seine Frau
Robert Leffler
Pastor Christoph Moser
Paul Bildt
Ernst Legal
Wilhelm Diegelmann
Josefine Dora
