Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Hans W. Geißendörfer Director
- Christoph Eichhorn as Hans Castorp
- Marie-France Pisier as Clawdia Chauchat
- Flavio Bucci as Ludovico Settembrini
- Charles Aznavour as Naphta
- Rod Steiger as Mynher Peperkorn
- Hans Christian Blech as Hofrat Behrens
- Alexander Radszun as Joachim Ziemßen
- Margot Hielscher as Frau Stöhr
- Gudrun Gabriel as Frl. Marusja
- Ann Zacharias as Frl. Elly
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