Die Buddenbrooks

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.

Drama

Peter Esser

(Thomas Buddenbrook)

Mady Christians

(Gerda Arnoldsen)

Alfred Abel

(Christian Buddenbrook)

Hildegard Imhoff

(Tony Buddenbrook)

Mathilde Sussin

(Elisabeth Buddenbrook)

Franz Egenieff

(Reeder Arnoldsen)

Rudolf del Zopp

(Konsul Krüger)

Auguste Prasch-Grevenberg

(Babette, Frau des Konsuls)

Ralph Arthur Roberts

(Bendix Grünlich, Agent)

Kurt Vespermann

(Renee Throta)

Elsa Wagner

(Sesemi Weichbrodt)

Charlotte Böcklin

(Aline Puvogel)

Emil Heyse

(Kesselmeyer)

Robert Leffler

(Kapitän Kloot)

Rudolf Lettinger

(Kutscher Grobleben)

Philipp Manning

Karl Platen

(Pokurist)

Friedrich Traeger

(Bürgermeister Oeverdieck)

Hermann Vallentin

(Smith)