Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story

Weiss and Speck never make a convincing case for the relevance of these two 20th-century footnotes.

Why make a documentary about these marginal historical figures? Wouldn't one about their famous dad, author of Death in Venice, etc., be more valuable?

The re- enactments, however fascinating they may be as history, are too crude to serve the work especially well.

Weiss and Speck capture the rich, turbulent tapestry of the Manns' lives.