The Magic Mountain
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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.
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Rod Steiger
Mynher Peperkorn
Marie-France Pisier
Clawdia Chauchat
Charles Aznavour
Naphta
Rolf Zacher
Herr Wehsal
Ann Zacharias
Frl. Elly
Kurt Raab
Dr. Krokowski
Tilo Prückner
Lehrer Popow
Hans Christian Blech
Hofrat Behrens
Erika Skrotzki
Oberin Mylendonk
Leslie Malton
Hermine Kleefeld
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