Genius (2016)

104 min · Biographical picture, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, drama film

Popularity4.5/5

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2025-09 to 2026-08

Directors

Michael Grandage

Cast

Colin Firth, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Guy Pearce, Dominic West, Laura Linney, Vanessa Kirby

The story

In 1929, in New York City, Maxwell Perkins is a successful editor at Scribner's and discoverer of great authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. He lives in a "cottage"—actually, a mansion—just outside the city with his wife and five daughters.

Catalogue themes and tags

Berlin International Film Festival 2016, Biografie, Book, Bookshop, Editor-in-Chief, Ernest Hemingway, Hat, Life Story, Literatur, New York, New Yorker, Novel, Publisher, Relation

Genres

Biographical picture, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, drama film

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