Der Zauberberg
(1982)
Regisseur:
Hans W. GeissendörferSchauspieler:
Hans Christian Blech, Rod Steiger, Ann Zacharias, Kurt Raab, Rolf Zacher, Irm Hermann, Helmut Griem, Flavio Bucci, Margot Hielscher, Charles Aznavour, Marie-France Pisier, Werner Eichhorn, Christoph Eichhorn, Alexander Radszun, Gudrun GabrielDer Hamburger Patriziersohn Hans Castorp besucht 1907 seinen lungenkranken Vetter in einem mondänen Sanatorium in dem schweizerischen Bergdorf Davos. Dort verfällt der junge Mann zunehmend der morbiden Faszination dieses Ortes. Obwohl er nicht wirklich krank ist, bleibt er schließlich sieben Jahre lang - bis zum Ausbruch des ersten Weltkriegs.
Thomas Mann hat seinen 1924 erschienenen Roman als großes Zeitbild angelegt, das die seelische und geistige Verfassung einer ganzen Epoche spiegelt. Mit riesigem Budget und internationalen Stars hat Hans W. Geissendörfer eine werkgetreue Verfilmung des berühmten Buchs geschaffen.
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.
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.