The Magic Mountain
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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.
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Cast
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Christoph Eichhorn
Hans Castorp
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Marie-France Pisier
Clawdia Chauchat
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Flavio Bucci
Ludovico Settembrini
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Charles Aznavour
Naphta
Known for
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Rod Steiger
Mynher Peperkorn
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Hofrat Behrens
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Giordano Bruno
Alexander Radszun
Joachim Ziemßen
Known for
Free Country
Margot Hielscher
Frau Stöhr
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Salto Mortale
Wilder Westen inclusive
Gudrun Gabriel
Frl. Marusja
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Wilder Westen inclusive
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Ann Zacharias
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Known for
The Wing or the Thigh?
Irm Hermann
Frl. Engelhart
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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
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Kurt Raab
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Hans W. Geißendörfer Director · Thomas Mann Author Jürgen Knieper Composer
First release February 25, 1982 · Produced in Germany, France · Languages English, German
Production
Opera Film Produzione
Production
Gaumont
Production
Franz Seitz Filmproduktion
Production
Iduna Film Produktiongesellschaft
Production
ZDF
Production
Société des Etablissements L. Gaumont
Production
Germany · France
Produced in
Languages
Original title
Der Zauberberg
Original language
German
Spoken on screen
English · German
Release dates
Germany · February 25, 1982
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
France
August 10, 1983
Italy
February 25, 1982
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