Mid-19th-century, Baltic Sea port city of Lubeck, Germany. Follows the fourth generation of the Buddenbrook mercantile family as Tony and Thomas reach the age of marriage. Fatefully impeded every step of the way, the Buddenbrooks struggle as economic hardship and personal defeats weigh down family relations.
Acting
Armin Mueller-Stahl anchors four generations of repressed suffering.
Production
Lübeck locations drip authentic 19th-century merchant gloom.
Director
Heinrich Breloer
Armin Mueller-Stahl
Johann Buddenbrook
Jessica Schwarz
Antonia Buddenbrook
August Diehl
Christian Buddenbrook
Mark Waschke
Thomas Buddenbrook
Iris Berben
Konsulin Bethsy Buddenbrook
Léa Bosco
Gerda Buddenbrook
Raban Bieling
Hanno Buddenbrook
Justus von Dohnányi
Bendix Grünlich
Alexander Fehling
Morten Schwarzkopf
Fedja van Huêt
Hermann Hagenström
Maja Schöne
Anna
Nina Proll
Aline Puvogel
Martin Feifel
Alois Permaneder
Sunnyi Melles
Senatorin Möllendorpf
Josef Ostendorf
Senator James Möllendorpf
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Thomas Mann's 1901 novel, which won him a Nobel Prize and made his family furious for airing their actual laundry.
Director Heinrich Breloer previously adapted this as a TV series; this theatrical cut still runs longer than most marriages.
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