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.
- Data de estreia
- 1 de outubro de 2007
- País de origem
- Ainda indisponível
Elenco
- John Gross como Klaus Mann
- Ernst Hohmann como Thomas Mann
- Katya Quinn-Judge como Gia
- Kris Caltagirone como Andrew
- Maya Baruch como S.R. Milton
- David Allen como Max Spellacy
- Abigail Waxman como Abby
- Antoinette Schacter como Golda
- William Cully Allen como Bearded Malcontent
- Patricia Fries como Klaus' Landlord
Equipe
- Daniel Kremer · Diretor(a)
- Eric Jeitner · Roteirista
- Daniel Kremer · Roteirista
- Daniel Kremer · Produtor(a)
- Scott Levine · Compositor(a)
- Charles Thackeray · Diretor(a) de fotografia
- Daniel Kremer · Editor(a)