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Quick Info

Rating

6.3/10

Release2011

Runtime1h 30m

StatusReleased

BudgetN/A

RevenueN/A

Production

Mammoth Screen

Movie

Christopher and His Kind

2011

1h 30m

6.3

Drama

Romance

TV Movie

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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