Thomas Mann

In this adaptation of the Thomas Mann novel, avant-garde composer Gustave Aschenbach (loosely based on Gustav Mahler) travels to a Venetian seaside resort in search of repose after a period of artistic and personal stress (imdb)

A short mime adaptation of a Thomas Mann story about a Parisian urchin who makes her living selling human heads. (imdb)

Mini-series adaptation of Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain.

Mini-series adaptation of Thomas Mann's The Confessions of Felix Krull.

A fragmented style, patchwork of interviews with Caetano Veloso's friends, mixed with conversations, thoughts, scenes of dance and literature excerpts. (imdb)

There's a narrative in here somewhere about a white man called Zohommm!!!, a black man called Grrr???, a woman called Shuick..., and their love triangle.

Charlotte Kestner, the love of Goethe's youth, became famous because she was the real-life Lotte represented in his renowned The Sorrows of Young Werther. At forty-four years of age she travels to Weimar to see Goethe again. The posturing of high society and Goethe's personal history lead her to an unexpected conclusion. (imdb)

A musician beds down a prostitute he knows is diseased in order to gain inspiration, an act he later believes to have been a tacit pact with Satan. (imdb)

Benjamin Britten's last opera based on the novella Death in Venice by Thomas Mann -performed in Glyndebourne.

With the natural splendour of Lac Léman as a back-drop, Le Mirage is the story of a woman who believes she can recapture her youth by rediscovering love... with no regard for the inescapable realities of life. (imdb)

Germany during the Weimar Republic . During the First World War, Professor Abel Cornelius published a German-national text. Now, in the crisis year 1923, he would like to dissociate himself from it. When student Max Hergesell appeals to his scruples, he feels challenged and obliged to defend his old positions against better knowledge.

The 1920s: The German Fuhrmann family spend their holidays in Italy again. The country is full of mysteries in that time. The Fuhrmann's have to realize the upcoming and growing fascism and their children are fascinated by a magician visiting the town. Soon nothing is as usual. The times are changing ... (imdb)

Towards the end of the century an unusual boy grows up in the small wine-growing town of Etlville: he is Felix Krull, the son of a German vintner who prefers French champagne to his own product. As a women's favorite, he is driven toward a life of "bon vivant" rather than adapting to the social narrowness of a provincial city. Felix begins to experience his talents with his parents, his teachers, his godfather, Schimmelpreester, and finally, with his nanny Genoveva. (Filmaffinity)

Saga of the Buddenbrook family and their business, set in 19th century Germany.

Literary adaptation: a handsome youth of humble origins rises in society through his connections made as an elevator attendant in a luxury hotel.

Literary adaptation: An American heiress in Europe falls in love with a German prince, but he is required to marry someone else for reasons of state convenience.