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The Magic Mountain (1982)

The Magic Mountain (1982)

Drama
Release Date: 1982, February 25
Directors: Hans W. Geißendörfer
Countries: Germany, France
Production: Opera Film Produzione, Opera Film Produzione, Gaumont, Gaumont, Franz Seitz Filmproduktion, Franz Seitz Filmproduktion, Iduna Film Produktiongesellschaft, Iduna Film Produktiongesellschaft, ZDF, ZDF
Cast: Leslie Malton, Charles Aznavour, Tilo Prückner, Rod Steiger, Flavio Bucci, Alexander Radszun, Hans Christian Blech, Erika Skrotzki, Helmut Griem, Irm Hermann, Johanna Karl-Lory, Kurt Raab

Overview:

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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