Werther was one of the last feature films that Jean-Pierre Lajournade made for television. The Lajournade's version of Werther makes a critical rereading of Goethe's work through a challenge to bourgeois society.
Key credits listed on this page include Jean-Pierre Lajournade, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thierry Garrel, Babette Lamy, Patrice Dupont, and Philippe Garrel.