logo

Home

Movies

TV shows

Sign In

HOMEMOVIESTV-SHOWSABOUTWATCHLIST
homemoviestv-showsaboutwatchlist

Powered by

TMDB website logo

© 2025 Filmverse

Sophisticated Acquaintance

10/01/2007

|

1hr 15min

|

Drama

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

STORY

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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • John Gross
  • Rob Nilsson
  • Katya Quinn-Judge
  • Ernst Hohmann
  • Glenn Walsh

    Director

  • Daniel Kremer

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

    Production Countries

LANGUAGES

    Cast

    John Gross

    Klaus Mann

    Katya Quinn-Judge

    Gia

    Ernst Hohmann

    Thomas Mann

    Glenn Walsh

    Bruce Jummaquin

    William Cully Allen

    Malcontent

    Brooke Somers

    Girl on Bus

    Kris Caltagirone

    Andrew

    movies like Sophisticated Acquaintance

    The Idiotmaker's Gravity Tour

    The Idiotmaker's Gravity Tour

    Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)

    Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)

    Two Sane Nuts

    Two Sane Nuts

    Little Pond in Main Street

    Little Pond in Main Street

    Young Cain

    Young Cain

    White Rhapsody

    White Rhapsody

    Der Dorfsheriff

    Der Dorfsheriff

    Entha Manchivaadavuraa

    Entha Manchivaadavuraa

    23

    23

    Adulterio

    Adulterio

    Hercules and Admetus

    Hercules and Admetus

    9 Variations on a Dance Theme

    9 Variations on a Dance Theme

    Blessed Child

    Blessed Child

    Thank You Brother!

    Thank You Brother!

    Revolución en el infierno

    Revolución en el infierno

    The Last Word in Chickens

    The Last Word in Chickens

    Diamond Demon

    Diamond Demon

    NJPW G1 Climax 33: Day 16

    NJPW G1 Climax 33: Day 16

    Motorpsycho Maniacs

    Motorpsycho Maniacs