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.
Fun facts
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Based on
Based on Buddenbrooks
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Music
Music by Giuseppe Becce
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Erich Waschneck
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Gerhard LamprechtWriter
- Alfred FeketeWriter
- Thomas MannNovel
- Luise Heilborn-KörbitzWriter
- Original title
- Die Buddenbrooks
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- August 30, 1923
- Original language
- German
- Countries
- Germany
Production
Cast
- Peter EsserThomas Buddenbrook
Mady ChristiansGerda Arnoldsen
Alfred AbelChristian Buddenbrook- Hildegard ImhoffTony Buddenbrook
- Mathilde SussinElisabeth Buddenbrook
- Franz EgenieffReeder Arnoldsen
- Rudolf del ZoppKonsul Krüger
Auguste Prasch-GrevenbergBabette, Frau des Konsuls
Ralph Arthur RobertsBendix Grünlich, Agent
Kurt VespermannRenee Throta
Elsa WagnerSesemi Weichbrodt
Charlotte BöcklinAline Puvogel- Emil HeyseKesselmeyer
Robert LefflerKapitän Kloot
Rudolf LettingerKutscher Grobleben- Philipp Manning
Karl PlatenPokurist- Friedrich TraegerBürgermeister Oeverdieck
Hermann VallentinSmith
Aribert WäscherOffice Worker
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