Sandra Hüller as Erika, Thomas Mann's daughter[Missing Credit] While the film will likely shine a spotlight once more on Mann, famed for The Magic Mountain and Death in Venice, Pawlikowski first discovered him in his teens, when he was living in Germany. “I actually did my abitur in Germany, so Thomas Mann...I had to bloody read him! I wasn’t terribly excited by his writing when I was young, I preferred more visceral, emotional writing. Now, with age, I admire it more and more.” [embedded content] The project began after he was sent a biography of Mann, who fled to Switzerland...
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