A patrician family of Luebeck merchants droops into oblivion in "Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family," a lackluster adaptation of Thomas Mann's monumental novel. Big-name German cast is aces, but ...

ROME — BBC miniseries “Burn Up” and Teutonic pubcaster ARD’s “Buddenbrooks” were the big winners at the third Rome Fiction Festival for TV content on Saturday. “Burn Up,” in which oil company execs, ...

Family sagas do not usually adapt well to the screen. With their profusion of characters and incidents, the two-hour plus format of the conventional feature film does not give them time to develop and ...

Movie series based on the book of the same name by Thomas Mann.

"Buddenbrooks" tells the story of a prominent merchant dynasty, spanning four decades from the family's rise to its collapse. It'll make your own family’s issues look harmless.

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