Steppenwolf

Steppenwolf

107 mins | Drama | Jan. 1, 1974

In the bourgeois circles of Europe after the Great War, can anything save the modern man? Harry Haller, a solitary intellectual, has all his life feared his dual nature of being human and being a beast. He's decided to die on his 50th birthday, which is soon. He's rescued from his solipsism by the mysterious Hermine, who takes him dancing, introduces him to jazz and to the beautiful and whimsical Maria, and guides him into the hallucinations of the Magic Theater, which seem to take him into Hell. Can humour, sin, and derision lead to salvation?

Steppenwolf

107 mins | Drama | Jan. 1, 1974

Steppenwolf
In the bourgeois circles of Europe after the Great War, can anything save the modern man? Harry Haller, a solitary intellectual, has all his life feared his dual nature of being human and being a beast. He's decided to die on his 50th birthday, which is soon. He's rescued from his solipsism by the mysterious Hermine, who takes him dancing, introduces him to jazz and to the beautiful and whimsical Maria, and guides him into the hallucinations of the Magic Theater, which seem to take him into Hell. Can humour, sin, and derision lead to salvation?
IMDb rating 6.1
Producers Produ Film GmbH
Original title Steppenwolf
Directors Ernst Bertschi, Nada Pinter, Fred Haines
Writers Hermann Hesse, Fred Haines

Cast

Max von Sydow

as Harry Haller

Dominique Sanda

as Hermine

Carla Romanelli

as Maria

Roy Bosier

as Aztec

Alfred Baillou

as Goethe

Charles Regnier

as Loering

Eduard Linkers

as Mr. Hefte

Silvia Reize

as Dora

Sunnyi Melles

as Rosa

Helen Hesse

as Frau Hefte