Film

Torquato Tasso

7.019692h 17mDrama TV Movie

Director: Martin Batty
Year: 1969

A Bremen production of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's "Torquato Tasso". The theme of the drama is—in addition to the love of the young Tasso for the Princess of Este, the Duke's sister—the role of the poet in courtly society.

Top cast

Wolfgang Schwarz

Alfons der Zweite, Herzog von Ferrara

Jutta Lampe

Leonore von Este

Edith Clever

Leonore Sanvitale, Gräfin von Scandiano

Bruno Ganz

Torquato Tasso

Werner Rehm

Staatssekretär Antonio Montecatino

Directed by

Martin Batty