After a colleague is murdered, insurance worker Kafka gets embroiled in an underground group who are attempting to thwart a secret organization that controls the major events in society.
Production
Prague locations that breathe actual Kafka
Cinematography
Shadows so thick you could file paperwork in them
Acting
Jeremy Irons' exquisite nervous breakdown
Director
Steven Soderbergh
Jeremy Irons
Kafka
Theresa Russell
Gabriela
Joel Grey
Burgel
Ian Holm
Dr. Murnau
Jeroen Krabbé
Bizzlebek
Armin Mueller-Stahl
Grubach
Alec Guinness
The Chief Clerk
Brian Glover
Castle Hechman
Keith Allen
Ass. Ludwig
Simon McBurney
Assistant Oscar
Robert Flemyng
The Keeper of the Files
Matyelok Gibbs
Concierge
Ion Caramitru
Solemn Anarchist
Hilde Van Mieghem
Female Anarchist
Jan Nemejovský
Mustachioed Anarchist
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Soderbergh shot this immediately after Sex, Lies, and Videotape—his 'one for them, one for me' era began early.
The film merges three unfinished Kafka novels; the ending is pure invention since Kafka never wrote one.
US
