Sophisticated Acquaintance

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

Sophisticated Acquaintance — Plot

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
• October 1, 2007
• Runtime
• 75 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Daniel Kremer

Sophisticated Acquaintance — Cast

J

John Gross Klaus Mann Rob Nilsson Narrator

K

Katya Quinn-Judge Gia

E

Ernst Hohmann Thomas Mann

G

Glenn Walsh Bruce Jummaquin

W

William Cully Allen Malcontent

B

Brooke Somers Girl on Bus

K

Kris Caltagirone Andrew