The Buddenbrooks (1979)
Television series | |
---|---|
German title | The Buddenbrooks |
Country of production | Germany |
original language | German |
year | 1979 |
length | 617 minutes |
Episodes | 11 in 1 season |
genre | Film adaptation |
Director | Franz Peter Wirth |
script | Franz Peter Wirth, Bernt Rhotert |
music | Eugene Thomass |
First broadcast | October 15, 1979 on ARD |
occupation | |
|
Buddenbrooks is a television series based on the novel Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann , which Franz Peter Wirth filmed based on a script he wrote together with Bernt Rhotert .
The Wirth version is the third film adaptation of the novel and an elaborate series filmed mainly in Gdansk by the cameraman Gernot Roll , in which numerous well-known theater and television actors appeared. Roll also worked as a cameraman on the 2008 remake.
structure
The series was divided into the following eleven parts (first broadcast date):
- The New House (October 15, 1979)
- Happy time in Travemünde (October 22, 1979)
- Engagement (October 29, 1979)
- A Broken Marriage (November 5, 1979)
- Business trip to Amsterdam (November 12, 1979)
- An Unusual Visitor (November 19, 1979)
- Thomas Becomes Senator (November 26, 1979)
- Centenary (December 3, 1979)
- Bad News from Lübeck (December 10, 1979)
- Selling the House (December 17, 1979)
- The Testament (December 23, 1979)
criticism
“TV adaptation of the great novel by Thomas Mann, which describes in epic breadth the decline of a Hanseatic patrician family in Lübeck in the second half of the 19th century. An elaborate and detailed production that comes up with opulent images, but which ultimately cannot bring the story to life in a believable way. What remains is an excessively long film that hopes to meet the tastes of the educated middle class. "
reception
In both the Federal Republic of Germany and the GDR , the series, which was broadcast weekly in autumn 1979, was seen by a comparatively large percentage of the audience when it was first broadcast as well as when it was repeated. Wirth achieved a high reputation with her, which was attributed to both the dignified staging and the recognized actors.
Secondary literature
- Timo Rouget: The reception in talkies and other media. In: Nicole Mattern u. Stefan Neuhaus (ed.): Buddenbrooks manual. Stuttgart: Metzler 2018, pp. 63–70. ISBN 978-3-476-04649-9
Web links
- Buddenbrooks in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Buddenbrooks
- The Buddenbrooks at Arthaus