
Sophisticated Acquaintance
Drama
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.
Top Cast
John Gross
John Gross
Klaus Mann
John Gross
Klaus Mann


Rob Nilsson
Rob Nilsson
Narrator
Rob Nilsson
Narrator
Katya Quinn-Judge
Katya Quinn-Judge
Gia
Katya Quinn-Judge
Gia
Ernst Hohmann
Ernst Hohmann
Thomas Mann
Ernst Hohmann
Thomas Mann
Glenn Walsh
Glenn Walsh
Bruce Jummaquin
Glenn Walsh
Bruce Jummaquin
William Cully Allen
William Cully Allen
Malcontent
William Cully Allen
Malcontent
Brooke Somers
Brooke Somers
Girl on Bus
Brooke Somers
Girl on Bus
Kris Caltagirone
Kris Caltagirone
Andrew
Kris Caltagirone
Andrew
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