Sophisticated Acquaintance
Sophisticated Acquaintance

Sophisticated Acquaintance

8.0

1 hr 15 min

2007-10-01

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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.

Drama

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Characters

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

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