Christopher and His Kind

A tender, historically grounded romance between two men in 1930s Berlin, shadowed by the rising Nazi threat and the impossibility of their love.

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.