Overview
Four-generation story-saga dealing with the decline of a middle-class Lübeck family. The first adaptation of a Thomas Mann book was also Gerhard Lamprecht’s first major film.
Director and cast
- Peter Esser as Thomas Buddenbrook
- Mady Christians as Gerda Arnoldsen
- Alfred Abel as Christian Buddenbrook
- Hildegard Imhoff as Tony Buddenbrook
- Mathilde Sussin as Elisabeth Buddenbrook
- Franz Egenieff as Reeder Arnoldsen
- Rudolf del Zopp as Konsul Krüger
- Auguste Prasch-Grevenberg as Babette, Frau des Konsuls
- Ralph Arthur Roberts as Bendix Grünlich, Agent
- Kurt Vespermann as Renee Throta
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