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Christopher And His Kind

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Shoot Dates 2010
Writer Kevin Elyot
Director Geoffrey Sax
Producer Celia Duval, Michele Buck, Kevin Elyot, Damien Timmer
Director of Photography Kieran McGuigan
Main Cast Matt Smith, Toby Jones, Imogen Poots
Locations Belfast, Mount Stewart, Ballywalter
Contacts PRODUCTION COMPANY
Mammoth Screen
BROADCASTER
BBC Two

Christopher And His Kind

Status: Completed

A drama that chronicles the formative years of one of the 20th century’s most celebrated writers, Christopher Isherwood, based on his 1976 memoir of the same name.

The ‘divinely decadent’ Berlin cabaret scene is in full swing when a young and wide-eyed Christopher Isherwood arrives in the city to stay with his close friend and occasional lover, the poet WH Auden. To Isherwood’s reserved English sensibility, the city’s thriving gay subculture is thrilling and intoxicating. But Christopher soon finds himself heartbroken after the failure of a hopeless love affair, and so sets out on a process of self-discovery as he forges an identity and place for himself amidst the chaos of 1930s Berlin.

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