Moritz Bleibtreu

The Petoskey Film Theater will be showing the German film "Young Goethe in Love" at 7:30 p.m. today, Wednesday, and Friday, May 2 and 4, at the Petoskey District Library, Carnegie building. Germany 1772 -- the young and tumultuous Johann Goethe...

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It's not as giddy as its title suggests, though perhaps it's a bit much to expect a period piece about Germany's great romantic poet and polymath Johann Goethe to be “Shakespeare in Love.” But “Young Goethe in Love” makes for a...