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Sophisticated Acquaintance (2007)

ALL 10/01/2007 (en) Drama 75 Min
  • Release
    10/01/2007
  • Production
  • Rotten tomato
    80%
  • Original title
    Sophisticated Acquaintance
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
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Klaus Mann had a short life...and a long death.

Overview

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.

  1. Daniel Kremer

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer



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  1. John Gross

    Klaus Mann

  2. Rob Nilsson

    Narrator

  3. Katya Quinn-Judge

    Gia

  4. Ernst Hohmann

    Thomas Mann

  5. Glenn Walsh

    Bruce Jummaquin

  6. William Cully Allen

    Malcontent

  7. Brooke Somers

    Girl on Bus

  8. Kris Caltagirone

    Andrew

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 8 , Crews : 2

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Sophisticated Acquaintance (2007) 75 Min

ALL 10/01/2007 (en)
Drama
  • Release 10/01/2007
  • Production
  • Original title Sophisticated Acquaintance
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Klaus Mann had a short life...and a long death.

Overview

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.

  1. Daniel Kremer

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer



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