Overview
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.
Cast
- Matt Smith as Christopher Isherwood
- Imogen Poots as Jean Ross
- Lindsay Duncan as Kathleen Isherwood
- Perry Milward as Richard Isherwood
- Toby Jones as Gerald Hamilton
- Pip Carter as W. H. Auden
- Alexander Dreymon as Caspar
- Faolan Morgan as Pieps
- Issy van Randwyck as Frl. Thurau
- Clare Louise Connolly as Frl. Schmidt