Screenplay: Thomas Mann

Direction Jean-Claude Guiguet

Cast Louise Marleau · Fabienne Babe · Marco Hofschneider · Véronique Silver

Direction Luchino Visconti

Cast Dirk Bogarde · Björn Andrésen · Silvana Mangano · Marisa Berenson

Plot In this adaptation of the Thomas Mann novel, a few years before the outbreak of the Great War, avant-garde composer Gustave Aschenbach (loosely based on Gustav Mahler) travels to a...

Direction Alejandro Jodorowsky

Cast Denise Brossot · Rolande Polya · Alejandro Jodorowsky · Saul Gilbert

Plot A short mime adaptation of a Thomas Mann story about a Parisian urchin who makes her living selling human heads.

Direction Heinrich Breloer

Cast Nina Proll · Maja Schöne · Lea Bosco · Raban Bieling

Plot Mid-19th-century, Baltic Sea port city of Lubeck, Germany. Follows the fourth generation of the Buddenbrook mercantile family as Tony and Thomas reach the age of marriage. Fatefully impeded every step...

Direction Alfred Weidenmann

Cast Liselotte Pulver · Hansjörg Felmy · Hanns Lothar · Lil Dagover

Direction Fernando Birri

Cast Terence Hill · Lidija Juracik · Isaac Twen Obu · Nolika Pareda

Direction Egon Günther

Cast Lilli Palmer · Martin Hellberg · Rolf Ludwig · Hilmar Baumann

Plot Based on the novel by Thomas Mann. Charlotte Kestner, the love of Goethe's youth, became famous because she was the real-life Lotte represented in his renowned The Sorrows of Young...

Direction Rolf Thiele

Cast Michael Maien · Elena Nathanail · Gerd Baltus · Gunther Malzacher

Direction Jesús Fernández Santos · Jaime Chávarri · Pilar Miró · Antonio Giménez Rico

Cast José Riesgo · Guillermo Díaz-Plaja · Carmen Maura · Mery Leyva

Direction Detlev Buck

Cast Jannis Niewöhner · Petra Berndt · Katja Flint · Christian Friedel

Plot Literary adaptation: a handsome youth of humble origins rises in society through his connections made as an elevator attendant in a luxury hotel.

Direction José Antonio Páramo

Cast Eusebio Poncela · María Massip · Narciso Ibáñez Menta · José Vivó

Direction Harald Braun

Cast Dieter Borsche · Ruth Leuwerik · Lil Dagover · Mathias Wiedman

Direction Bernhard Sinkel

Cast John Moulder-Brown · Magali Noël · Hans Heinz Moser · Pierre Doris

Plot Based on unfinished 1954 novel by the German author Thomas Mann. It is a parody of Goethe's autobiography Poetry and Truth, particularly in its pompous tone.

Direction Franz Seitz

Cast Jon Finch · André Heller · Hanns Zischler · Margot Hielscher

Plot A musician beds down a prostitute he knows is diseased in order to gain inspiration, an act he later believes to have been a tacit pact with Satan.

Direction Kurt Hoffmann

Cast Horst Buchholz · Liselotte Pulver · Ingrid Andree · Susi Nicoletti

Direction Rolf Thiele

Cast Jean-Claude Brialy · Nadja Tiller · Werner Hinz · Anaid Iplicjian

Direction Klaus Maria Brandauer

Cast Julian Sands · Anna Galiena · Jan Wachtel · Nina Schweser

Direction Gerhard Lamprecht

Cast Peter Esser · Mady Christians · Alfred Abel · Hildegard Imhof

Plot Saga of the Buddenbrook family and their business, set in 19th century Germany.

Direction Hans W. Geissendörfer

Cast Werner Eichhorn · Rod Steiger · Marie-France Pisier · Flavio Bucci

Plot 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...