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.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (13)
Production and distribution (3)
- Co-production : Gaumont
- Foreign production companies : Franz Seitz Filmproduktion, ZDF - Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen, Iduna Film, Opera Film Produzione, ORF 1 (Österreichischer Rundfunk 1)
- French distribution : Gaumont
Full credits (7)
- Adaptation : Hans-Werner Geissendörfer
- Director of Photography : Michael Ballhaus
- Music Composer : Jürgen Knieper
- Editors : Peter Przygodda, Helga Borsche
- Foreign producers : Renzo Rossellini, Franz Seitz
- Author of original work : Thomas Mann
- Co-producers : Daniel Toscan du Plantier, Nicolas Seydoux
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Literary adaptation , Drama
- Production language : English
- Coproducer countries : Germany, France, Italy, Austria
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Production year : 1982
- French release : 10/08/1983
- Runtime : 2 h 30 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 54096
- Visa issue date : 30/05/1983
- Approval : Unknown
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.66
- Audio format : Mono
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