

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.
Directed by Geoffrey Sax, Michele Buck, Kevin Elyot
User score
96 votes



Released
March 19, 2011
1h 30m
German, English

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)
Owen Dickey
Stage Manager (uncredited)
Tony Finnegan
Salesman (uncredited)