Sophisticated Acquaintance
Overview
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
01/10/2007
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Original Soundtrack
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1945
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The Last Emperor
City of Angels
The Music Room
Moulin Rouge!
Brother of Sleep
Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl
Antonia's Line
A Few Good Men
The Hustler
Once Were Warriors
Full Metal Jacket
Short Cuts
Manhattan
The Beach Bum
This Is Your Song
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Caché