“Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story” is the result of a remarkable pairing between fiction and non-fiction filmmakers Wieland Speck and Andrea Weiss. It depicts another remarkable relationship, between Erika and Klaus Mann, the brilliant eldest children of German author Thomas Mann.

In 1921, an American medical student living in Ireland is unjustly imprisoned and tortured by the British “Black and Tans,” then fully commits himself to the cause of Irish freedom.