This documentary contains dramatized episodes about the lives of Erika and Klaus Mann, the brilliant children of German writer Thomas Mann.
Acting
The Redgrave siblings narrating queer siblings—meta and moving.
Direction
Dramatized segments that feel like secret home movies.
Production
Incredible archival footage of Weimar Berlin's queer underground.
Director
Andrea Weiss
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Erika Mann married poet W.H. Auden in 1935 purely for British citizenship to escape Germany—he was gay, she was queer, it was a total lavender marriage.
The 'Pfeffermühle' cabaret Erika founded was so radical that Nazis literally kept a file called 'The Mann Case'—her entire family, one dossier.
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