The neurotic director Max Karlsson tries to do a film of Goethe's "Die Leiden des jungen Werthers". He finds all actors for his melodrama - except Lotte, the wonderful girl who is an object of two mens love. He auditions a number of girls. But when he finds the right one nothing goes the way he had figured.
as Werther
as Lessing
as Lotta/Lotte
as Walter
as Emilia
as Walther
as Ossian
as Werther/Viktor
as Max Karlsson
as Martha
as Willhelm/Albert