The Thomas Mann Collection (Buddenbrooks / Doktor Faustus / The Magic Mountain) [DVD]

Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929, Thomas Mann was honored for a body of work that began with his first novel, Buddenbrooks, and whose other milestones included The Magic Mountain and Doktor Faustus. These three novels are brought to life in this outstanding 7-disc collection, which pays tribute to Manns most celebrated and famous works. Buddenbrooks As seen on PBS Great Performances. A stimulating adaptation of Manns most famous novel and one of the most widely read German novels in the world, Buddenbrooks is the sweeping tale of the rise and fall of a wealthy merchant family torn between family loyalty and personal freedom.

Doktor Faustus Driven by a single-minded search for a totally new musical idiom, composer Adrian Leverkuhn, makes a pact with the devil with a very high price: the total renunciation of love and the gradual deterioration of the mind and body. The Magic Mountain Hans Castorp, son of a distinguished Hamburg family, spends seven years in a Swiss sanatorium. Drawn to the hermetic society, he receives an erotic and philosophical initiation but abruptly leaves at the launch of the Great War to learn true life experience and responsibility.