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.
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
