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.
Watch the official The Buddenbrooks 1923 trailer in HD below.
Peter Esser as Thomas Buddenbrook
Mady Christians as Gerda Arnoldsen
Alfred Abel as Christian Buddenbrook
Hildegard Imhoff as Tony Buddenbrook
Mathilde Sussin as Elisabeth Buddenbrook
Franz Egenieff as Reeder Arnoldsen
Rudolf del Zopp as Konsul Krüger
Auguste Prasch-Grevenberg as Babette, Frau des Konsuls
Ralph Arthur Roberts as Bendix Grünlich, Agent
Kurt Vespermann as Renee Throta
Elsa Wagner as Sesemi Weichbrodt
Charlotte Böcklin as Aline Puvogel
Emil Heyse as Kesselmeyer
Robert Leffler as Kapitän Kloot
Rudolf Lettinger as Kutscher Grobleben
Gerhard Lamprecht Director
Albert Pommer Producer
Alfred Fekete Writer
Luise Heilborn-Körbitz Writer
Gerhard Lamprecht Writer
Thomas Mann Novel
Otto Moldenhauer Art Direction
Erich Waschneck Director of Photography
Herbert Stephan Director of Photography
Giuseppe Becce Original Music Composer
Buddenbrooks Trailer
Det gamle Købmandshjem Trailer
Germany 30 August 1923
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Bericht des Schleswig-Holstein Magazins vom 7. Juli 2008 über die Stummfilm-vorführung von 'Die Buddenbrooks' aus dem Jahr 1923. Am Klavier Volker ...
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1923:
02 October 1923
Three men fall in love with a woman from a window photograph. When they find her living as a recluse in an isolated Hungarian mansion, they decide against a visit because she wouldn't live up to their idealized images of her.
22 February 1923
When the old, wealthy Doctor Schön takes Lulu under his wing, he has no idea that she will be his certain death.
10 September 1923
A rousing fusion of satire, mystery and action. Aristrocrat Ambrose Applejohn is aching for excitement.
01 June 1923
In order to save his family from financial ruin, an English aristocrat agrees to come to America and marry the daughter of a wealthy businessman.
03 June 1923
Wealthy Bruce MacAllister, goaded by his fiancée, Helen, into proving that he is a man of action rather than a pampered youth tells his estate administrator, Eugene Preston, that he is going east for a meeting.
26 October 1923
Nellie Wayne, a retired Broadway actress, has a small dog named "Chum", who is part of a vaudeville act and is the sole support of the family.
01 October 1923
Inventor Peter Marchmont has discovered a purple light that renders the user invisible. On his release from prison, Marchmont, disguised as Victor Cromport, uses the light to revenge himself against his former wife, Jewel, and her partner, James Dawson, who framed him for theft.
15 July 1923
Automobile maker John Kent is an old-fashioned sort who refuses to advertise his car line. His daughter Ginger, however, is determined to get him some publicity and goes speeding around town in one of his cars, hoping to get arrested.
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