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.
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
Maggie Hayes
as Frl. Mayr
Iddo Goldberg
as Wilfrid Landauer
