Werther is a 1986 Spanish drama film directed and co-written by Pilar Miró and starring Eusebio Poncela.
It is a modern adaptation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 1774 novel The Sorrows of Young Werther.
[2] In a coastal town in northern Spain, a young Greek teacher, Werther, lives alone in his ancestors' old house on the other side of the bay.
He is a romantic and melancholic man who agrees to tutor the son of a wealthy shipowner, who happens to be an introverted and difficult child.
Werther becomes attracted to Carlota, the boy's mother, who is a strong and independent woman, and will no longer be able to live without her.