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.
as Hans Castorp
as Clawdia Chauchat
as Ludovico Settembrini
as Naphta
as Mynher Peperkorn
as Hofrat Behrens
as Joachim Ziemßen
as Frau Stöhr
as Frl. Marusja
as Frl. Elly
as Frl. Engelhart
as Dr. Krokowski
as James Tienappel
as Herr Wehsal
as Herr Wiedemann
as Olga
as Dr. Ting Fu
as Hermine Kleefeld
as Lehrer Popow
as Oberin Mylendonk
as Patientin
as Miklosisch
