Movie: Sophisticated Acquaintance

Top 8 Billed Cast

John Gross
John Gross

Klaus Mann

Rob Nilsson
Rob Nilsson

Narrator

Katya Quinn-Judge
Katya Quinn-Judge

Gia

Ernst Hohmann
Ernst Hohmann

Thomas Mann

Glenn Walsh
Glenn Walsh

Bruce Jummaquin

William Cully Allen
William Cully Allen

Malcontent

Brooke Somers
Brooke Somers

Girl on Bus

Kris Caltagirone
Kris Caltagirone

Andrew

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    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

    2007-10-01

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    8

  • Rating:

    4.0 starts
  • Tagline

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

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