
23 Aug 2024

Ababooned
Set in the Faubourg à mélasse district of Montreal, Quebec, in the 1950s, the film centres on a conflict between the Roman Catholic Church and a young team of baseball players.
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
Clawdia Chauchat
Ludovico Settembrini
Naphta
Mynher Peperkorn
Hofrat Behrens
Joachim Ziemßen
Frau Stöhr
Frl. Marusja
Frl. Elly
Frl. Engelhart
Dr. Krokowski
James Tienappel
Herr Wehsal
Herr Wiedemann
Olga
Dr. Ting Fu
Hermine Kleefeld
Lehrer Popow
Oberin Mylendonk
23 Aug 2024
Set in the Faubourg à mélasse district of Montreal, Quebec, in the 1950s, the film centres on a conflict between the Roman Catholic Church and a young team of baseball players.
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