This drama is taken from Thomas Mann's 1903 semi-autobiographical novel. Tonio (Jean Claude Brialy) is an aspiring writer and the son of a rigid aristocratic father and a music-loving mother. Wandering throughout Germany and Italy to "find himself," Tonio frequently remembers his childhood...
Adaptation of Thomas Mann's 1901 novel, which chronicles the decline of a wealthy German merchant family over the course of four generations, portraying the manner of life and mores of the Hanseatic bourgeoisie in the years from 1835 to 1877.