Intentionally or not, we believe that the actor who played the part of Werther in this film gave a very truthful impersonation of Goethe's lugubrious hero. He was doleful enough, and conceited enough, and ponderously sentimental enough to be in very truth that romantic German individual, and his suicide had the right touch of self-conscious Byronism. If the actor did this intentionally we commend him for his high histrionic ability; but more likely he though he was playing the part of a very romantic and impressive hero. Werther thought the same thing; but the tact is they were both only mediocre actors. As entertainment the piece is dull; Charlotte's and Werther's love affair was too uneventful to be interesting in dramatic form. Scenically the film is exceptionally fine, the period of the story being faithfully reproduced. (The Nickelodeon, October 15, 1910)

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Young Werther falls in love with Charlotte, Albert's fiancée. After the wedding, Charlotte still resists Werther's love and the latter decides to shoot himself with Albert's gun.

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