The Magic Mountain (1982)

Original title

Der Zauberberg

Directed by

Hans W. Geißendörfer

Genre

drama film, coming-of-age film

Country

Germany, France, Italy

Runtime

2h 33m

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 13 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young man visits his cousin at a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps and ends up staying for years. He meets other patients and gets drawn into their philosophical debates and strange world.

contemplativeslow-pacedintellectualmelancholicatmosphericintrospectivelanguidserious

What happens

The Magic Mountain (German: Der Zauberberg) is a 1982 drama film directed by Hans W. Geißendörfer and starring Christoph Eichhorn, Rod Steiger and Marie-France Pisier. An adaptation of Thomas Mann's 1924 novel The Magic Mountain, it was made as a co-production between Austria, Italy, France and West Germany. It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin and at a variety of locations, many of them in Switzerland. The sets were designed by the art directors Heidi Lüdi and Toni Lüdi. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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