Christopher and His Kind (2011)

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7.1	IMDB rating

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Directed by

Geoffrey Sax

Starring (View all)

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

Written by

Christopher Isherwood

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Description: 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. Whilst working as an English teacher his housemates include bewigged old queen Gerald Hamilton and would-be actress Jean Ross,who sings tunelessly in a seedy cabaret club. They and others he meets get put into his stories. After a fling with sexy rent boy Caspar he falls for street sweeper Heinz,paying medical bills for the boy's sickly mother, to the disapproval of her other son,Nazi Gerhardt. With Fascism rapidly rising Christopher returns to London with Heinz but is unable to preven ... (more)

Release date: 20 February 2011

Tags: Gay (2), Period Drama (2), Writer (2), Author (2), Biography (1), UK (1), Book (1), Historical (1), Bbc (1), Glbt (1), Berlin (1), Tv Movie (1), Based On Book (1), 2010's (1)

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"Period gay romance movie. Spoiler the ones that supposedly were the main couple don't end up together, and one of them ends up with a woman. But no one dies. It's based on a real life person's memoir."