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Buddenbrooks

Buddenbrooks

1979TV Series⏱️ 10h 14m
Drama
7.7
IMDB Rating
158 votes

Family saga set in 19th century Germany, chronicling the lives of three generations of the Buddenbrook family, the owners of a family business in the northern town of Luebeck. Based on the novel by Thomas Mann.

Director
N/A
Writers
N/A
Stars
Ursula Dirichs, Volkert Kraeft, Reinhild Solf
Release Date
October 5, 1979
Language
German
Country
West Germany, France
💬 3
Reviews
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🎭 Top Cast

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Ursula Dirichs
as Ida Jungmann
Volkert Kraeft
Volkert Kraeft
as Thomas Buddenbrook
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Reinhild Solf
as Antoinette 'Tony' Buddenbrook
Gerd Böckmann
Gerd Böckmann
as Christian Buddenbrook
Ruth Leuwerik
Ruth Leuwerik
as Elisabeth Buddenbrook
Udo Thomer
Udo Thomer
as Friedrich Wilhelm Marcus
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Noëlle Châtelet
as Gerda Buddenbrook
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Adem Rimpapa
as Hanno Buddenbrook
Regine Lutz
Regine Lutz
as Sesemi Weichbrocht
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Barbara Markus
as Erika Grünlich

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
1.33 : 1
Color
Color
Filming Location
Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland
Production
Hessischer Rundfunk (HR), TF1, Taurus Film

🏷️ Keywords

family businesspatriarchfamily relationships19th century1800s

🎯 Categories

GermanDrama

⭐ Featured Review

Competent but not outstanding costume drama
by george-1022001-01-02
7/10

"I sometimes think there are too many period dramas, mostly British, in which immense sums of money are spent taking over streets and removing all the television aerials from them, just to prove that gorgeously-dressed men with stiff collars and moustaches are also prey to the finer emotions. This television series can't really be blamed for that, because it dates from 1978, when I think such adaptations were not so thick on the ground. All the same I can't help thinking of it as yet more of the same, and while the quality is very good, and it all looked very expensive, and I enjoye..."

💡 Did You Know?

This series was dubbed into English and released first in England and then in America, on the PBS series Masterpiece Theater - the only German series so honoured.

📖 Synopsis

Family saga set in 19th century Germany, chronicling the lives of three generations of the Buddenbrook family, the owners of a family business in the northern town of Luebeck. Based on the novel by Thomas Mann.