---
title: 'Buddenbrooks (2008)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Heinrich Breloer'
released: '2008-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 151
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'Germany'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/buddenbrooks-2008'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1058601/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Buddenbrooks (2008)

2008 · 151 min · Drama · Germany


## Synopsis

Buddenbrooks, released also as Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family, is a 2008 German drama film directed by Heinrich Breloer, adapted from the 1901 novel of the same name by Thomas Mann. Set in the 19th century, the film portrays the decline of a wealthy family of grain merchants in Lübeck, the Buddenbrooks, and with them a whole way of life as Germany changed radically. It stars Armin Mueller-Stahl as the family's patriarch Consul Jean Buddenbrook, Iris Berben as his wife Bethsy Buddenbrook, and Jessica Schwarz, Mark Waschke and August Diehl as their children Tony, Thomas, and Christian Buddenbrook, respectively.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Heinrich Breloer](https://cinepixo.com/people/heinrich-breloer)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Hans Peter Ströer](https://cinepixo.com/people/hans-peter-stroer)
- **Director of Photography:** [Gernot Roll](https://cinepixo.com/people/gernot-roll)
- **Editor:** [Barbara von Weitershausen](https://cinepixo.com/people/barbara-von-weitershausen)

## Cast

- [Wolfgang Hinze](https://cinepixo.com/people/wolfgang-hinze) as Hinrich Hagenström
- [André Hennicke](https://cinepixo.com/people/andre-hennicke) as Gosch
- [Jan Peter Heyne](https://cinepixo.com/people/jan-peter-heyne) as Brecht
- [Krijn ter Braak](https://cinepixo.com/people/krijn-ter-braak)
- [Jürgen Rißmann](https://cinepixo.com/people/jurgen-ri-mann) as Anton
- [Sarah-Lavinia Schmidbauer](https://cinepixo.com/people/sarah-lavinia-schmidbauer) as Babette
- [Josef Ostendorf](https://cinepixo.com/people/josef-ostendorf) as Senator Möllendorpf
- [Fedja van Huêt](https://cinepixo.com/people/fedja-van-huet) as Hermann Hagenström
- [Matthias Deutelmoser](https://cinepixo.com/people/matthias-deutelmoser) as Doctor Giesecke
- [Alexander Fehling](https://cinepixo.com/people/alexander-fehling) as Morten Schwarzkopf
- [Martin Horn](https://cinepixo.com/people/martin-horn) as Corl Smolt
- [August Diehl](https://cinepixo.com/people/august-diehl) as Christian Buddenbrook
- [Elert Bode](https://cinepixo.com/people/elert-bode) as Consul Lebrecht Kröger
- [Nina Proll](https://cinepixo.com/people/nina-proll) as Aline Puvogel
- [Jessica Schwarz](https://cinepixo.com/people/jessica-schwarz) as Antonie Buddenbrook

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Official site: http://wwws.warnerbros.de/buddenbrooks/
Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/buddenbrooks-2008
Film facts: Wikidata (Q827407); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.