

Four-generation story-saga dealing with the decline of a middle-class Lübeck family. The first adaptation of a Thomas Mann book was also Gerhard Lamprecht’s first major film.
Gerhard Lamprecht

Auguste Prasch-Grevenberg
Babette, Frau des Konsuls

Ralph Arthur Roberts
Bendix Grünlich, Agent

Kurt Vespermann
Renee Throta

Elsa Wagner
Sesemi Weichbrodt

Charlotte Böcklin
Aline Puvogel