Clavigo (film)

Clavigo is a West German 1970s television movie directed by Marcel Ophüls, based on the 1774 play Clavigo by Goethe.

It is the film version of a play staged and directed by Fritz Kortner.

The film follows the titular Clavigo, a young writer whose engagement to a French noblewoman allows the publication of his weekly magazine.

His success leads him to fail to honor this engagement, and he suffers the consequences.

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