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The Magic Mountain (1982) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1982 · 146 mins · German
- Directed by
- Hans W. Geißendörfer
- Starring
- Rod Steiger, Flavio Bucci, Irm Hermann, Hans Christian Blech, Charles Aznavour, Marie-France Pisier
Hans Castorp, an engineering graduate, goes to the Berghof sanatorium in the Swiss Alps to visit his cousin Joachim, a tubercular officer. Planned as a three‑week trip, he is drawn into the morbid atmosphere, pretends to be a patient and stays seven years. He debates the humanist Settembrini against the Jesuit Naphta, falls for the enigmatic Clawdia Chauchat, and is discharged in 1914 as World War I begins.
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