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The Magic Mountain

The Magic Mountain

1982•2h 26m•6.0/10
Drama

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6.0/10(12)

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.

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Production

Opera Film Produzione, Gaumont, Franz Seitz Filmproduktion, Iduna Film Produktiongesellschaft, ZDF

Language

DE

Status

Released

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Cast

Christoph Eichhorn

Christoph Eichhorn

Hans Castorp

Marie-France Pisier

Marie-France Pisier

Clawdia Chauchat

Flavio Bucci

Flavio Bucci

Ludovico Settembrini

Charles Aznavour

Charles Aznavour

Naphta

Rod Steiger

Rod Steiger

Mynher Peperkorn

Hans Christian Blech

Hans Christian Blech

Hofrat Behrens

Alexander Radszun

Joachim Ziemßen

Margot Hielscher

Margot Hielscher

Frau Stöhr

Gudrun Gabriel

Gudrun Gabriel

Frl. Marusja

Ann Zacharias

Ann Zacharias

Frl. Elly

Irm Hermann

Irm Hermann

Frl. Engelhart

Kurt Raab

Kurt Raab

Dr. Krokowski

Helmut Griem

Helmut Griem

James Tienappel

Rolf Zacher

Rolf Zacher

Herr Wehsal

Buddy Elias

Herr Wiedemann

Johanna Karl-Lory

Olga

Ah Yue Lou

Dr. Ting Fu

Leslie Malton

Leslie Malton

Hermine Kleefeld

Tilo Prückner

Tilo Prückner

Lehrer Popow

Erika Skrotzki

Erika Skrotzki

Oberin Mylendonk

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