
Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Matt Smith (DOCTOR WHO) stars as English-born writer Christopher Isherwood in this BBC dramatization of the novelist&s early years spent in hedonistic 1930&s Berlin The city&s thriving gay scene proved to be momentous in both Isherwood&s personal & professional life; during this time he met Jean Ross the eventual inspiration for CABARET character Sally Bowles (Imogen Poots BOUQUET OF BARBED WIRE) & fell madly in love with a young street cleaner named Heinz (Douglas Booth WORRIED ABOUT THE BOY) The journey of self-discovery was a world away from the repressive values of his mother (Sally Duncan ROME) in England & --as chronicled in this lavish drama-- the intoxicatingly decadent German subculture was irresistible to the blossoming literary legend Superbly acted with dazzling period detail CHRISTOPHER & HIS KIND is written by acclaimed playwright Kevin Elyot