

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
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.