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The power and fortune of the Von Essenbeck family remained intact even when Germany lost World War I, and during the depression that followed. Now it's 1934, and the baron has summoned his family to a dinner that also brings a cousin rising in the Nazi party to the great house accompanied by a rising manager at the baron's company. Two little girls recite poetry in the parlor and then play hide-and-seek with their cousin Martin (Helmut Berger). Suddenly there is a scream. The baron has been shot with their father's gun and the father flees the country.
In the early days of Nazi Germany, a powerful noble family must adjust to life under the new dictatorship regime. The transition from democracy to dictatorship is thus dramatized through the lives of the family which also owns a powerful German industrial firm. Through the characters, this movie shows how German upper class nobility first resented Adolf Hitler, then accepted him, and at last, embraced him.
Dirk Bogarde
Friedrich Bruckmann
Ingrid Thulin
Baroness Sophie Von Essenbeck
Helmut Griem
Aschenbach
Helmut Berger
Martin Von Essenbeck
Renaud Verley
Günther Von Essenbeck
Umberto Orsini
Herbert Thallman
Reinhard Kolldehoff
Baron Konstantin Von Essenbeck
Albrecht Schoenhals
Baron Joachim Von Essenbeck
Florinda Bolkan
Olga
Nora Ricci
Governess
Charlotte Rampling
Elisabeth Thallman
Irina Wanka
Lisa Keller
Karin Mittendorf
Thilde Thallman
Valentina Ricci
Erika Thallman
Wolfgang Hillinger
Janek
Bill Vanders
Chief of Police
Howard Nelson Rubien
Dean of the University
Werner Hasselmann
Gestapo Officer
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