Movies: Franz Kafka

A boy tries to find out what happened in the old local synagogue. Obsessed, he is chasing something he never saw and does not pay any attention to what is happening around him. Inspired by Franz Kafkas unfinished novel....

Based on 'Frank Kafka"s Metamorphose story, the documentary presents 2 metamorphosis of the present society: anorexia, as an disruption of our self-perception; depression, as an isolating illness ; and physically handicapped conditions, as mobility p...

The mice people live in an enormous theatre, expectantly awaiting the ambiguous show by Josefina....

A young man's family has trouble adjusting to his sudden transformation into a giant bug....

A man comes to a small village to begin his new job as an attendant at the nearby castle. But everybody in the village claims that he surely must be mistaken, there is no need for an attendant at the castle....

When Gregório, a modest sales representative, mysteriously transforms into an insect, his social relationships and ties to the world begin to disintegrate. Tormented by incessant thoughts, he struggles to feel and remain human....

Based on Franz Kafka's famous novel, director Jaakko Pakkasvirta created this interpretation of the woebegone Josef K., who is trapped in an ever-increasing labyrinth of double talk and bureaucratic nonsense in his efforts to reach the castle. As Jos...

Larry Cedar stars in Franz Kafka's THE BURROW, directed by Pamela Cedar, from an adaptation by Howard Colyer....

‘The Great Wall has been completed at its most southerly point.’ So begins Kafka’s short story ‘At the Building of the Great Wall of China’, and so, at Europe’s heavily militarised south-eastern frontier, begins this film. In the shadow of its own n...

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Based on Kafka's 1922 short story about a hunger artist....

A young man, recently arrived in New York from Europe, becomes swept up in a series of events that are beyond his knowledge or control....

A foreign journalist arrives on a small Pacific island 200 miles off the coast of South America. Once a leper colony, the island was later transformed into a prison and then, under U.N. mandate, made into an independent republic. Yet despite democrat...

Based on the novel of the same name by Franz Kafka....

Based on Franz Kafka's The Castle. A certain K. appears in a snow-covered godforsaken village as if out of nowhere. All the power in the village belongs to the mysterious Castle that strangers are barred from accessing. K. presents himself to the loc...

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An experimental study about the love between Franz Kafka and his adored Felice based on their correspondence....

While working on a television movie project about Franz Kafka, German actor Hanns Zischler discovered a series of passionate writings in Kafka's journals about his own moviegoing. Zischler, who also wrote a book of the same title, spent the next twen...

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An animated adaptation of Franz Kafka’s acclaimed novella, “The Metamorphosis,” made from carving images into sand with glass....