09 Sep 2006
Stranger Than Fiction
Harold Crick is a lonely IRS agent whose mundane existence is transformed when he hears a mysterious voice narrating his life.
The Magic Mountain
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.
Top Billed Cast
Christoph Eichhorn Hans Castorp
Marie-France Pisier Clawdia Chauchat
Flavio Bucci Ludovico Settembrini
Charles Aznavour Naphta
Rod Steiger Mynher Peperkorn
Hans Christian Blech Hofrat Behrens
Alexander Radszun Joachim Ziemßen
Margot Hielscher Frau Stöhr
Gudrun Gabriel Frl. Marusja
Ann Zacharias Frl. Elly
Irm Hermann Frl. Engelhart
Kurt Raab Dr. Krokowski
Helmut Griem James Tienappel
Rolf Zacher Herr Wehsal
Buddy Elias Herr Wiedemann
Johanna Karl-Lory Olga
Ah Yue Lou Dr. Ting Fu
Leslie Malton Hermine Kleefeld
Tilo Prückner Lehrer Popow
Erika Skrotzki Oberin Mylendonk
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