CinemaOSMovie · 2007 · 1h 15m

Sophisticated Acquaintance

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

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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.

Directed byDaniel Kremer

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Status
Released
Runtime
1h 15m
Language
EN
Released
October 1, 2007

Featuring

Cast & crew

8 credited
Starring

John Gross

Klaus Mann

Rob Nilsson

Rob Nilsson

Narrator

Katya Quinn-Judge

Gia

Ernst Hohmann

Thomas Mann

Glenn Walsh

Bruce Jummaquin

William Cully Allen

Malcontent

Brooke Somers

Girl on Bus

Kris Caltagirone

Andrew

Creative team
Directed by
Daniel Kremer
Daniel Kremer
Written by
Daniel Kremer
Daniel Kremer

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