
Description: "Stéphane Audran, Michael Degen, Helmut Griem, Pascale Reynaud, Die Wahlverwandtschaften"; a screen shot of from an part in the 1982 television remake drama of Goethe's 1809 Elective Affinities.

Description: "Stéphane Audran, Michael Degen, Helmut Griem, Pascale Reynaud, Die Wahlverwandtschaften"; a screen shot of from an part in the 1982 television remake drama of Goethe's 1809 Elective Affinities.

In remakes, Die Wahlverwandtschaften (drama) refers a 1982 118-minute France, West Germany television drama remake of German polymath Johann Goethe’s 1809 physical chemistry based novella Elective Affinities, directed by Claude Chabrol, first broadcast: ARD, 4 April 1982, including Helmut Griem as Edward Otto, Stéphane Audran as Charlotte, Michael Degen as Captain Otto, Pascale Reynaud as Ottilie. [1]

Synopsis
The following is the synopsis for the television version of the novella:

"Edward Baron (Helmut Griem) and his wife Charlotte (Stephane Audran) live peacefully and quietly in the country. That changes when his friend Edward, the Captain (Michael Degen) arrives at the same time inviting and Charlotte's niece Ottilie (Pascale Reynaud) on the property. Soon Charlotte falls in love with the Captain and master of the house Edward in love with the beautiful Ottilie. The "elective affinities" position, however, all social conventions on their head."


Stéphane Audran, Michael Degen, Die Wahlverwandtschaften	Stéphane Audran, Michael Degen, Helmut Griem, Pascale Reynaud, Die Wahlverwandtschaften
	Reviews Reviewers at TVSpielFilm.de give the TV drama the following ratings:
Helmut Griem, Pascale Reynaud, Die Wahlverwandtschaften

References
1. (a) Die Wahlverwandtschaften (German) – TVSpielFilm.de.
(b) The Affinities (German → English) – TVSpielFilm.de.