A true declaration of love to Werther This Goethean film by Thomas Koerfer alludes to the genesis of the work and the history of its reception at the time. Through selected comments from the later-life Goethe, Werther It becomes part of the German's most intense artistic work: his own life. The final monologue completes the image of a Goethe who understands himself and his era, while also glancing sideways at posterity.