Film Adaptations
See also: Buddenbrooks (film)In 1959 and 1960, German filmmaker Alfred Weidenmann directed two film adaptions of Buddenbrooks. Buddenbrooks - 1. Teil was released in 1959 and featured actors Liselotte Pulver, Nadja Tiller, Hansjörg Felmy, Hanns Lothar, Lil Dagover and Werner Hinz. The following year, Buddenbrooks - 2. Teil was released in theaters and featured the same cast.
A silent version by Gerhard Lamprecht released in 1923 still showed a pre-war Lübeck. Franz Peter Wirth directed a 10-hour TV version that premiered in 1979 and was filmed in less-damaged Gdansk.
In 2008, a film adaption was made by a German production. One of the castings is Armin Mueller-Stahl, known from several Hollywood films.
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