Christopher & His Kind DVD

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and 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&39;s early years spent in hedonistic 1930&39;s Berlin The city&39;s thriving gay scene proved to be momentous in both Isherwood&39;s personal and professional life; during this time he met Jean Ross the eventual inspiration for CABARET character Sally Bowles (Imogen Poots BOUQUET OF BARBED WIRE) and 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 and --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 AND HIS KIND is written by acclaimed playwright Kevin Elyot