Tonio Kröger

This drama is taken from Thomas Manns 1903 semiautobiographical novel Tonio Jean Claude Brialy is an aspiring writer and the son of a rigid aristocratic father and a musicloving mother Wandering throughout Germany and Italy to find himself Tonio frequently remembers his childhood experiences in a series of flashbacks The highlight of the film is the expert lensing by cinematographer Wolf Wirth Erika Mann the daughter of the late poet and author collaborated with Ennio Flaiano on the screenplay