Movies: Franz Kafka

Set in a city both past and present, on a deserted street where only the distant sounds of life blow by. The Hunger Artist stands alone, locked in his cage. Once famous and adored by the crowds, he now performs alone....

Based on a short story by Franz Kafka, Masloboyshchikov’s debut film is a parable about the relationship between faith and salvation. A strange doctor comes to a neighbouring village to cure a sick child. The doctor thinks the boy should stop pretend...

A series of 15 prints inspired by "A Report for an Academy" by Franz Kafka, provokes this look at the life of the artist and social activist Francisco Toledo....

A Kafka dialogue is read by actors in Straub's own apartment in Paris....

Animated film based on F. Kafka's work "The Castle". It was created at the studio of the Naumov brothers in 1993. Technology - plasticine lining....

Adaptation of a Kafka short story, believed lost for more than 60 years....

An adaptation of Kafka's "A Country Doctor". A doctor is to make out a death certificate to a little boy, but the disorder is different from what he assumed....

Young Karl Roßmann emigrates to the USA, meets a rich man whose money Karl initially lives off, but who soon throws him out again....

In an ominous Lisbon courtyard where the last executioner of the kingdom once lived, an accident is waiting to happen. After a patient game of who's observing who, four characters will collide with dire consequences. Inspired by the novel The Damned ...

Frantic Assembly’s Metamorphosis retells Franz Kafka’s account of human struggle as a young salesman finds himself morphed into an insect. Captured live at Lyric Hammersmith Theatre in 2024, this adaptation by poet Lemn Sissay OBE uses powerful lyri...

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Short film adaptation of Kafka's 'The Metamorphosis'....

In a huge and empty neoclassical mansion surrounded by an indefinite war, the daughter of a bourgeois family returns from Europe bringing a Kafkaesque toy. Because of this object without specific usefulness, everyone in the family begins to discuss l...

Gregor Samsa awakes to find himself as a huge insect! suddenly then gets roped along on a grand adventure to save his sister from a mysterious shadowy figure!...

This 14-minute film, inspired by Franz Kafka's last short story, "Josephine the Singer," and produced in collaboration with Maestro Broadcasting, is directed by Scottish Opera's resident filmmaker, Antonia Bain, and composed by former Emerging Artist...

KAFKA'S THE BURROW tells the story of a man's "metamorphosis" (as Kafka would put it) in a rapidly changing and increasingly isolated world. A man (Axel Prahl), who has seemingly achieved everything, ensconces himself in his burrow, a fortress-like a...

On the comic tragedy of loneliness, based on the short story "Blumfeld, an elderly bachelor" by Franz Kafka....

Essay film about Franz Kafka's novel "Amerika"....

Mauro Bigonzetti's ballet based on Franz Kafka, performed by the National Theatre Ballet. Choreographer Mauro Bigonzetti, fascinated by the irresistible language of Prague native Franz Kafka and the enduring relevance of his novel "The Trial," was dr...

A man wakes up in an unpleasant predicament....