The Magic Mountain

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Rod Steiger

Mynher Peperkorn

Age : 77 | Popularity : 20%

Marie-France Pisier

Clawdia Chauchat

Age : 66 | Popularity : 6%

Christoph Eichhorn

Hans Castorp

Age : 66 | Popularity : 11%

Flavio Bucci

Ludovico Settembrini

Age : 72 | Popularity : 8%

Charles Aznavour

Naphta

Age : 94 | Popularity : 21%

Hans Christian Blech

Hofrat Behrens

Age : 78 | Popularity : 7%

Alexander Radszun

Joachim Ziemßen

Age : 71 | Popularity : 3%

Margot Hielscher

Frau Stöhr

Age : 97 | Popularity : 7%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Sound	Original Music Composer	Jürgen Knieper
Editing	Editor	Peter Przygodda Helga Borsche
Camera	Director of Photography	Michael Ballhaus
Production	Producer	Franz Seitz Junior
Writing	Novel	Thomas Mann
	Screenplay	Hans W. Geißendörfer
Directing	Director	Hans W. Geißendörfer
Department	Role	Name

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