After filming the family history of Noble prize-winning author Thomas Mann as a television docudrama, Heinrich Breloer has taken the next logical step and filmed Mann’s most famous novel: BUDDENBROOKS. It’s a grand costume film about the rise and fall of a German merchant family. Breloer has pulled out all the stops in the casting. Armin Mueller-Stahl plays the family patriarch, Iris Berben his wife, Jessica Schwarz his daughter Tony. Even the minor roles boast some of the best acting talent Germany has to offer. BUDDENBROOKS is more than a period film. In one family’s struggle to survive at the end of the 19th century, Breloer sees strong parallels to the present day. KINO on a great German family saga.