Stars: Eva Axén, Leslie French, Romolo Valli, Marco Tulli, Dirk Bogarde
While resting in Venice, the composer Gustav Van Aschenbach becomes dangerously infatuated with a teenager named Tadzio...
Stars: Heinz Weiss, Jon Finch, Hanns Zischler, Herbert Grönemeyer, Ulrich Günther
A musician sleeps for inspiration with a prostitute he knows is sick, an act he later believes was a tacit pact with the devil...
Stars: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Jean-Marie Proslier, François Perrot, Denise Brossot, Rolande Polya
A short version of Thomas Mann's story about a boy who earns his living by selling human heads...
Stars: Michael Maertens, Martin Wuttke, Anian Zollner, Dominique Horwitz, Charly Hübner
Felix Kroll fears social collapse after his father's company goes bankrupt. However, thanks to his persuasive charm and his great talent for cheating, Felix always turns life in his favor...
Stars: Alexander Fehling, Armin Mueller-Stahl, André Hennicke, Justus von Dohnányi, August Diehl
In the 1840s, Lübeck is an industrial city on the shores of the Baltic Sea, and the Badenbrucks are among the city's first families. Jean Badenbroeck has two sons, Thomas and Christian, and a daughter, Antonia. Although he loves them deeply, he expects them to sacrifice their happiness for others and...
