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Release Date: 2011 Cast: Stuart Graham, Faolan Morgan, Will Kemp, Imogen Poots, Alexander Doetsch, Iddo Goldberg, Clare Louise Connolly, Lindsay Duncan, Toby Jones, Issy Van Randwyck, Gertrude Thoma, Maggie Hayes ...MORE
Cast: Stuart Graham, Faolan Morgan, Will Kemp, Imogen Poots, Alexander Doetsch, Iddo Goldberg, Clare Louise Connolly, Lindsay Duncan, Toby Jones, Issy Van Randwyck, Gertrude Thoma, Maggie Hayes, Thomas Wlaschiha, Pip Carter, Douglas Booth, Matt Smith, Perry Millward ...LESS
Categories: Movies, LGBT, Period piece, Biography Christopher and His Kind is a 2011 BBC television film. It tells the story of Christopher Isherwood's life in Berlin in the early 1930s. The film was adapted by Kevin Elyot from Isherwood's autobiography of the same title, produced by Mammoth Screen and directed by Geoffrey Sax. Isherwood is played by Matt Smith, whilst the cast also includes Toby Jones, Douglas Booth, Imogen Poots and Iddo Goldberg.
In Los Angeles in 1976, Christopher Isherwood begins writing a memoir. The film flashes back to 1931 as Christopher prepares to leave England for Germany, against the wishes of his mother... MORE
Christopher and His Kind is a 2011 BBC television film. It tells the story of Christopher Isherwood's life in Berlin in the early 1930s. The film was adapted by Kevin Elyot from Isherwood's autobiography of the same title, produced by Mammoth Screen and directed by Geoffrey Sax. Isherwood is played by Matt Smith, whilst the cast also includes Toby Jones, Douglas Booth, Imogen Poots and Iddo Goldberg.
In Los Angeles in 1976, Christopher Isherwood begins writing a memoir. The film flashes back to 1931 as Christopher prepares to leave England for Germany, against the wishes of his mother Kathleen. On the train he meets Gerald Hamilton, an English ne'er-do-well of Irish descent, who suggests that Christopher take a room at the boarding house where he lives. Upon his arrival in Berlin, Christopher meets his friend Wystan Auden, who takes him to the Cosy Corner, a seedy gay club populated by hustlers.
Christopher takes up residence at Gerald's boarding house under landlady Fräulein Thurau. There he becomes fast friends with Jean Ross, an aspiring actress who sings at an underground club. He also begins a tumultuous affair with Caspar, one of the rentboys from the Cosy Corner. Their LESS
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