Armin Mueller-Stahl credited as playing...
Johann 'Jean' Buddenbrook
- Johann 'Jean' Buddenbrook: You are a Buddenbrook. We are not born to live for what we might take to be happiness with our short-sighted eyes. We are links in a chain. You, too, are unthinkable without those who have come before us.
- Johann 'Jean' Buddenbrook: Sit down in my place. I want you to draw up an advertisment. 'Merchant Jean Buddenbrook, royal dutch consul, is honoured to announce that he will stop signing from this day on. The eldest son, Thomas, will from now on manage the Buddenbrook company.'