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.
Director
Gerhard Lamprecht
Mady Christians
Gerda Arnoldsen
Alfred Abel
Christian Buddenbrook
Auguste Prasch-Grevenberg
Babette, Frau des Konsuls
Ralph Arthur Roberts
Bendix Grünlich, Agent
Kurt Vespermann
Renee Throta
Elsa Wagner
Sesemi Weichbrodt
Charlotte Böcklin
Aline Puvogel
Robert Leffler
Kapitän Kloot
Rudolf Lettinger
Kutscher Grobleben