Christopher and His Kind 2011 Movie

How real-life British-American author Christopher Isherwood and his German boyfriend Heinz met and fell in love during the 1930s and the rise of Nazism. More details

Directors

Geoffrey Sax

Cast

Matt Smith Imogen Poots Lindsay Duncan

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biography drama romance pubic hair male pubic hair author german actress sex friend writer cabaret gay sex nazi germany 1930s gay gay man married to a woman homosexuality gay love gay protagonist younger version of character pre war post war hugging flowers prostitution male prostitution boyfriend boyfriend relationship gay couple push ups keyhole loud sex spying on couple having sex gay relationship male to male footsie playing broken shop window reference to buddenbrooks the novel american reference to hollywood california reflection in picture frame glass chaise lounge dolphin statuette waitress maid train conductor jumping onto a bed polish hamburg germany medical school nightclub flyer bed eavesdropping looking through a keyhole prostitute 20 year old reference to john the baptist carpe diem camel hair underwear rough sex reference to lenin writing based on memoir card playing undershirt poet swimming jewish overhead camera shot african german juggler magician taxi business card lighting a cigarette pounding on a door knocking on a door footsie under the table male footsie under the table beer mug torch being followed following someone engineering student coughing bouquet dangling feet in water bribery black eye candle eating food circular staircase brutality bloody face blood face injury loudspeaker self discovery tweezing nose hairs subtitled scene pick up bench shopkeeper lie overflowing champagne bottle dressing gown masked man s&m whipping teaching someone to speak english english lesson stranger on a train train station stairway dead father reading a newspaper newspaper reference to cambridge university suitcase shame what happened to epilogue pawnshop throwing away a bracelet reference to the league of nations immigration british immigration looking out a window cross gay liberation doctor record player recording victrola fire reference to thomas mann reference to oscar wilde vandalism street cleaner clock englishman abroad tears crying death coffin grave abortion pregnancy year 1952 year 1976 year 1933 looking at self in mirror mirror communist men's bathroom urination urinal swastika punched in the face fight dressing room backstage champagne eyeglasses sunglasses anal sex lake exercise dock swimsuit department store illness photograph los angeles california prologue flash forward sidewalk cafe notebook money storm trooper reference to johnny weissmuller star of david montage landlady friendship beer drinking drink hustler male prostitute piano player piano violence brother brother relationship beating reference to adolf hitler wig reference to max reinhardt reference to noel coward reference to e.m. forrester bare butt jew nude photograph train novelist voice over narration memory cigarette lighter cigarette holder cigarette smoking year 1931 homosexual nudity boarding house song singing singer infatuation male rear nudity male frontal nudity male nudity male male kiss gay bar bare chested male mother son relationship book burning kiss gay kiss nazi germany flashback typewriter family relationships england berlin germany death of mother character name in title

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