Conceived as a kaleidoscopic mosaic, the film follows the imprint Franz Kafka left on the world from his birth in 19th-century Prague to his death in post-WW1 Vienna.
Direction
Holland's kaleidoscope structure mirrors Kafka's fractured psyche.
Acting
Weiss captures the specific hunger of a man never fully seen.
Production
Prague and Vienna rendered as psychological spaces, not postcards.
Director
Agnieszka Holland
Idan Weiss
Franz Kafka
Peter Kurth
Hermann Kafka
Katharina Stark
Ottla Kafka
Sebastian Schwarz
Max Brod
Carol Schuler
Felicie Bauer
Jenovéfa Boková
Milena Jesenska
Ivan Trojan
Siegried Löwy
Sandra Korzeniak
Julie Kafka
Aaron Friesz
Oskar Baum
Josef Trojan
Icchak Löwy
Vladimír Javorský
ředitel pojišťovny
Gesa Schermuly
Grete Bloch
Emma Smetana
průvodkyně v muzeu Franze Kafky
Karel Dobrý
Pfohl
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Holland is the first female director to tackle Kafka biographically, bringing her signature focus on political outsiders to literary myth-making.
Idan Weiss learned Czech and German for the role, then discovered most of Kafka's private journals were in a German-Hebrew hybrid that no longer exists.
CZ
