Family saga set in 19th century Germany, chronicling the lives of three generations of the Buddenbrook family, the owners of a family business in the northern town of Luebeck. Based on the novel by Thomas Mann.

托马斯·曼（Thomas Mann）的同名家族传奇小说于1901年出版，讲述了吕贝克（Lübeck）一个商人家庭的衰落，该书于1923年首次被改编成电影。虽然小说的故事背景设定在19世纪，但这部电影是迄今为止唯一一部将故事背景移至当代的改编作品。导演格哈德·兰普雷希特（Gerhard Lamprecht）着重刻画了……的鲜明对比的个性。

First part of two of the saga of the troubled Buddenbrook family and their business in mid 19th century Germany.

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父亲去世后，小约翰（阿明·缪勒-斯塔尔 Armin Mueller-Stahl 饰）接替了父亲的职位掌管了公司。小约翰有三个孩子托马斯、克里斯蒂（奧古斯特·迪赫 August Diehl 饰）和安东尼（洁西卡·史瓦兹 Jessica Schwarz 饰），聪明勤恳的克里斯蒂老老实实的跟着约翰学本领，深受约翰的信赖，而托马斯则和他恰恰相反，喜欢看戏的他总是神龙见首不见尾。 大女儿安东尼眼看就要到了家人的年纪了，约翰相中了一个名叫格林利希（尤斯图斯·冯·多赫纳尼 Justus von Dohnanyi 饰）的青年商人，觉得他和自己的女儿简直是门当户对，但是安东尼却非常讨厌这个油腔滑调的男人。之后，安东尼邂逅了另一个年轻人，体会到了爱情的悸动。

According to Guadagnino himself, an adaptation of ‘Buddenbrooks’ by Thomas Mann” is in the works. He sees it as a companion piece to “Queer,” which is a William S. Burroughs adaptation. I think they are kind of mirroring each other, or they are the flip coin of each other. One [‘Queer’] is about the longing of the past and the unavoidability when you meet someone that is really pulling you in, and you want to see yourself reflected in the gaze of the other. And the other one [‘Buddenbrooks’] is about the decadence of a Western society rooted in the most brutal form of repression, internal before being external. To understand the obscenity of repression being acted out upon people, I think you have to see and look into the repression that the people who are exerting repression over other people have within themselves, not to justify them, but to go to the root of this heart of darkness. Guadagnino has mentioned the influence that Mann’s 1901 novel had on him, but the filmmaker is now telling IndieWire that he’s in the process of adapting it with “We Are Who We Are” creator/writer Francesca Manieri.