Confessions of Thomas Mann, Confidence Man (2024): Cast & Ratings

This feature film explores the fifty-year journey behind Thomas Mann’s unfinished novel, Confessions of Felix Krull. It delves into the writer’s personal struggles with his sexuality, revealing a hidden vulnerability beneath his image as a literary superstar and family man. The film follows Mann’s creative and personal exile, from Germany to Paris and Lisbon, using archival materials and dramatized scenes. It examines the complex relationship between Mann and his fictional character, Felix Krull, both figures navigating deception, identity, and longing amidst political turmoil, ultimately unveiling the man behind the myth.

• AS Director André Schäfer

• SS Sebastian Schneider as Thomas Mann
• NR Nils Rovira-Muñoz

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• IMDb

  6.0 /10

  40 votes

• TMDB

  70% User score

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Also known as

• Confessions of the Impostor Thomas Mann
• Thomas Mann et son double