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Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story

Country: UK, Language: English, 85 mins

Original Title

Die Erika und Klaus Mann Story
  • Director: Wieland Speck; Andrea Weiss
  • Producer: Greta Schiller

CGiii Comment

The children of Thomas Mann...precocious brats of privilege - their story is jigsawed together with obvious missing pieces.

The dramatic interludes are worthless and unnecessary - a straightforward documentary would have sufficed.

And - their lives - really - are not that interesting.


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The(ir) Blurb...

Documentary with dramatised episodes about the lives of Erika and Klaus Mann, children of German writer Thomas Mann.

Cast & Characters

Cora Frost;
Albrecht Becker as Professor;
Christoph Eichhorn as Klaus Mann;
Corin Redgrave as Narrator;
Vanessa Redgrave as Narrator