Sophisticated Acquaintance (2007)
Klaus Mann had a short life...and a long death.
75 min
Mixing elements of narrative, experimental, pseudo-documentary and essayist cinema, Sophisticated Acquaintance tells the story of a tormented individual whose short life and long death were affected by a great many factors. Klaus Mann (John Gross), a present-day Philadelphia avatar of the real-life European author of Mephisto, lives in the shadow of his father, the eminent intellectual, novelist and Nobel Laureate Thomas Mann (Ernst Hohmann). When Klaus pens a controversial essay on "revolutionary suicide" and then acts on it, in protest of the world's selfishness, a group of his contemporaries speak up in filmed interviews about what led him down that path. It is a film about the creative process, the tragic depiction of a strained father-son relationship and, most of all, it is a film about individuality.
- Release date
- October 1, 2007
- Country of origin
- Not yet available
Cast
- John Gross as Klaus Mann
- Ernst Hohmann as Thomas Mann
- Katya Quinn-Judge as Gia
- Kris Caltagirone as Andrew
- Maya Baruch as S.R. Milton
- David Allen as Max Spellacy
- Abigail Waxman as Abby
- Antoinette Schacter as Golda
- William Cully Allen as Bearded Malcontent
- Patricia Fries as Klaus' Landlord
Crew
- Daniel Kremer · Director
- Eric Jeitner · Writer
- Daniel Kremer · Writer
- Daniel Kremer · Producer
- Scott Levine · Composer
- Charles Thackeray · Cinematographer
- Daniel Kremer · Editor