Filmaufbau

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.

One of the more important European avant-garde films of the post-war period, this feature-length work offered a devastating comment on the mid-century European mood. A macabre landscape of impotence and absurdity, peopled by ambiguous travellers, finally explodes into senseless violence.

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