felis already knows this one, but check out Alec Guinness as Heinrich Mann (and Jeremy Irons as Ödön von Horvath, and Sian Cusack as Nelly Mann, Heinrich's wife), in a tv version of Christopher Hampton's play "Tales from Hollywood". The premise of the play is "what if?", in this case "What if Ödön von Horvath hadn't died in 1938 but had emigrated with the rest of the German language exile writers from France to Los Angeles?", and the play is narrated fro his perspective. Some Alex Guinness fan excerpted several of his scenes for this vid here.