The Magic Mountain

The story

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

C Christoph EichhornHans Castorp M Marie-France PisierClawdia Chauchat F Flavio BucciLudovico Settembrini C Charles AznavourNaphta R Rod SteigerMynher Peperkorn H Hans Christian BlechHofrat Behrens A Alexander RadszunJoachim Ziemßen M Margot HielscherFrau Stöhr G Gudrun GabrielFrl. Marusja A Ann ZachariasFrl. Elly I Irm HermannFrl. Engelhart K Kurt RaabDr. Krokowski

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H Helmut GriemJames Tienappel R Rolf ZacherHerr Wehsal B Buddy EliasHerr Wiedemann J Johanna Karl-LoryOlga A Ah Yue LouDr. Ting Fu L Leslie MaltonHermine Kleefeld T Tilo PrücknerLehrer Popow E Erika SkrotzkiOberin Mylendonk L Lotti HuberPatientin N Narziß SokatscheffMiklosisch B Beate ToberLeila Gerngroß