
Christopher and His Kind
- TV-14
- Year:
- 2011
- 90 min
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It's 40 years since I first wrote about
my time in Berlin.
And the book I'm now writing is perhaps
an attempt to set the record straight -
well, as straight as it's possible to be.
I destroyed my Berlin diaries, you see,
so I've had to rely a good deal on memory.
As to why I went in the first place,
my friend Wystan Auden was there
and encouraged me to join him.
I could also say I went because of
what was happening politically.
But in fact, I went because of the boys.
Danke schn, mein Liebling.
# One man has hands that are tender
# One man has hands that are strong
# If I should choose to surrender
# My choices are bound to be wrong
# If I search both far and wide...
My dear, that simply won't do.
You're the very last person
who ought to go there.
Berlin isn't the right place for you at all.
What on earth do you mean?
It's German, darling.
Wystan Auden thinks
it's the most marvellous place.
Auden! Such an untidy boy.
Besides, what about medical school?
But, Mummy, I am not cut out for medical
school.
That's exactly what you said about Cambridge.
Christopher, you cannot go through life
shirking it. It's time you buckled to.
- I'm a published novelist.
- Of course you are, darling.
But wouldn't it be so much nicer
to be a doctor as well?
It isn't a hobby, you know.
Any normal mother would be proud.
And I am proud, my sweetheart.
You know I found your novel most interesting.
I thought it was ingenious the way you used
your antipathy to me to such creative effect.
to be one long holiday.
I'm not going there on holiday.
I'm going there to get away from you.
Couldn't you go somewhere a little closer -
like the Isle of Wight?
# I don't know to whom I belong
# It would be such a shame
to end up on my own
# If I make myself true to one
# How another will surely be sad and alone
Of course you must do as you wish.
It's only natural that you should want to flee
the nest just as I'm bound to get more lonely.
What I went through to bring you into this world.
Months and months of feeling really quite seedy.
Oh, well.
So be it.
You won't forget, will you, darling...
...that the Germans killed your father?
Take me with you.
You have to stay and look after Mummy.
But for how long?
I'm afraid I can't answer that.
# If I make myself true to one
# How another will surely be sad and alone
# Should such a beauty belong to one person?
# No, surely, the sun and the stars
# They belong to us all
# I don't know to whom I belong
# I believe I only belong to myself
Danke. Vielen Dank.
I was wondering...
Do forgive me, dear boy,
I didn't mean to startle you.
- No, no.
- Could I trouble you for a light?
Yes, of course.
I seem to have mislaid my lighter...
Oh, thank you, dear boy.
It may have been... Would you mind if I...
- No, no.
- How kind.
It may have been stolen.
Oh, dear.
One has to be so careful nowadays,
don't you find?
Are you going all the way?
- Excuse me?
- To Berlin.
Oh, yes.
- Holiday?
- I'm hoping for a little more than that.
Ah, yes, well.
Berlin has so much to offer in certain respects.
- Do you live there?
- For now.
One never knows what a new dawn may bring.
I hope you don't think I'm prying, dear boy,
but do you have accommodation in Berlin?
I do, as it happens.
The reason why I venture such impertinence
is that my landlady, dear sweet woman,
is desperate for a reliable lodger.
Her landlords are ruthless,
and if they knew
that she didn't have the full quota,
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