The Magic Mountain (1982)

Drama

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.

Cast

Clawdia Chauchat
Frl. Engelhart
Dr. Krokowski
James Tienappel
Herr Wehsal
Herr Wiedemann
Dr. Ting Fu
Hermine Kleefeld
Lehrer Popow
Oberin Mylendonk
Ludovico Settembrini
Patientin
Mynher Peperkorn
Hofrat Behrens
Joachim Ziemßen
Frau Stöhr
Frl. Marusja
Frl. Elly

Crew

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