Die Buddenbrooks
Four-generation story-saga dealing with the decline of a middle-class Lübeck family. The first adaptation of a Thomas Mann book was also Gerhard Lamprecht’s first major film.
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Die Buddenbrooks
1923
5
Martin Eden
Duration: 0 h 50 m | 1914
A sad story about how a working-class man tries, and succeeds, to become a writer, but finds difficulty in fitting into that world.
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