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Christopher and His Kind

2011 · NR · 1h 30m

Directed by Geoffrey Sax

6.3

TMDB audience score
98 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

In 1931, budding author Christopher Isherwood goes to Berlin at the invitation of his friend W. H. Auden for the gay sex that abounds in the city. He falls for street sweeper Heinz, paying medical bills for the boy's sickly mother, to the disapproval of her other son, Nazi Gerhardt.

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Cast

  • Matt Smith
    Christopher Isherwood

  • Imogen Poots
    Jean Ross

  • Lindsay Duncan
    Kathleen Isherwood

  • Perry Millward
    Richard Isherwood

  • Toby Jones
    Gerald Hamilton

  • Pip Carter
    W. H. Auden

  • Alexander Dreymon
    Caspar

  • Faolan Morgan
    Pieps

  • Issy van Randwyck
    Frl. Thurau

  • Clare Louise Connolly
    Frl. Schmidt

  • Maggie Hayes
    Frl. Mayr

  • Iddo Goldberg
    Wilfrid Landauer

  • Will Kemp
    Bobby Gilbert

  • Douglas Booth
    Heinz Neddermayer

  • Gertrude Thoma
    Fr. Neddermayer

  • Tom Wlaschiha
    Gerhardt Neddermayer

  • Stuart Graham
    Passport Officer

  • Alana Kerr
    Tarty Girl (uncredited)