Release Date

25 Feb, 1982

Runtime

02:26: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

Hans Castorp, fresh from university and about to become a civil engineer, comes to the Sanatorium Berghof in the Swiss Alps to visit his cousin Joachim, an army officer, who is recovering there from tuberculosis. Intending to remain at the Berghof for three weeks, Hans is gradually contaminated by the morbid atmosphere pervading the place. Wishing very much to be considered a patient like the others, he achieves his ends and stays in the sanatorium for ...seven years. During this time, he has enough time to take part in the furious philosophical debates pitting against each other Settembrini, a secular humanist, and Naphta, a totalitarian Jesuit. And to fall in love with the beautiful but enigmatic Clawdia Chauchat. When he is finally discharged in 1914 - along with all the other patients - it is only to plunge into the horrors of World War I.

Original Title

Der Zauberberg

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Actors

Christoph Eichhorn

Marie-France Pisier

Flavio Bucci

Charles Aznavour

Rod Steiger

Hans Christian Blech

Alexander Radszun

Margot Hielscher

Gudrun Gabriel

Ann Zacharias

Irm Hermann

Kurt Raab

Helmut Griem

Rolf Zacher

Buddy Elias

Johanna Karl-Lory

Ah Yue Lou

Leslie Malton

Tilo Prückner

Erika Skrotzki

Lotti Huber

Crew

Hans W. Geißendörfer

Hans W. Geißendörfer

Thomas Mann

Michael Ballhaus

Jürgen Knieper

Helga Borsche

Peter Przygodda

Franz Seitz Junior