WED.  JUNE 10, 2015 @ 7.00 PM

Director: Heinrich Breloer

Germany, 2008, 152 min.

Zeitgeist Northwest is excited to introduce our PORTLAND GERMAN FILM FESTIVAL – Monthly Film Series. We will show a variety of of GERMAN or GERMAN-language films once a month at the Clinton Street Theater. In addition to the annual Portland German Film Festival, audiences will now have a chance to see German or German-language films on a regular basis.  All films are with English subtitles.

Starting in 2015, the films will be screened every second Wednesday of the month.

Film Synopses:

Buddenbrooks – The Decline of a Family is the gripping cinematic adaptation of Thomas Mann’s Nobel Prize-winning novel of 1900, starring Academy Award®-nominee Armin Mueller-Stahl in the lead role. In loving, compassionate detail and cinematic scope, Emmy® Award-winner Heinrich Breloer portrays the rise and decline of a merchant family in the bourgeois aristocracy in Luebeck in their fight and sacrifice for the economic survival of the family and their pursuit of happiness and impossible love.

While Thomas is willing to fill the void of their father, Consul Jean, and to steer the firm through the times of modernization and rising competition, his brother Christian is trying to break away from any responsibility. We find him in dubious company, marrying a woman from a vaudeville show, rebelling against everything their father stood up for. It is left to their sister, Tony, who sacrifices her true love for the sake of the family’s fortune, to hold the family ties together. But when their competitor Hagenstroem proves to have the better instinct for the changing needs of the market, even her influence seems to vanish…

Cast Armin Mueller-Stahl, August Diehl, Iris Berben, Jessica Schwarz, Mark Waschke, Léa Bosco, Martin Feifel, Justus von Dohnányi, Fedja van Huêt