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Sophisticated Acquaintance

Not Rated
Drama
8/10(1 ratings)

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.

10-01-2007
1h 15m
Sophisticated Acquaintance

Main Cast

Rob Nilsson

Rob Nilsson

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Rob Nilsson (born October 29, 1939, Rhinelander, Wisconsin) is an American independent film director, writer, and sometimes actor. He has won the Caméra d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and the Sundance Grand Jury Prize. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rob Nilsson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

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Movie Details

Production Info

Director:
Daniel Kremer
Writer:
Daniel Kremer

Locations and Languages

Country:
US
Languages:
en