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Film makes the creative process visible by letting its narrative flow in the mind of a foreign director who is researching a film about Franz Kafka in Prague. Based on the principle of dreams and free association, segments unfold that deal with the various points of view that Kafka's work, personality and fate offer. In the labyrinth of his mind, the fictional director projects himself into situations from the author's life, with Kafka himself as his guide. At the same time, he delves into the history of the persecution of the Jews and glimpses the monstrosity of the bureaucratic apparatus that Kafka anticipated but could not have foreseen the monstrous size and function it would grow to a few years after his death in the institutionalized genocide and overall machinery of Nazism.

Top Cast

  • Maximilian Schell

    Maximilian Schell

    The Filmmaker

  • Christopher Chaplin

    Christopher Chaplin

    Franz Kafka

  • Christian Thuri

    Christian Thuri

    David Hilsner

  • Miloš Kopecký

    Miloš Kopecký

    Rabbi Löw

  • Vlastimil Brodský

    Vlastimil Brodský

    Löbl

  • Antonia Miklíková

    Antonia Miklíková

    Esther

  • Daniel Margolius

    Daniel Margolius

    Simon

  • Milan Šimáček

    Milan Šimáček

  • Ludvík Pozník

    Ludvík Pozník

Overview

Film makes the creative process visible by letting its narrative flow in the mind of a foreign director who is researching a film about Franz Kafka in Prague. Based on the principle of dreams and free association, segments unfold that deal with the various points of view that Kafka's work, personality and fate offer. In the labyrinth of his mind, the fictional director projects himself into situations from the author's life, with Kafka himself as his guide. At the same time, he delves into the history of the persecution of the Jews and glimpses the monstrosity of the bureaucratic apparatus that Kafka anticipated but could not have foreseen the monstrous size and function it would grow to a few years after his death in the institutionalized genocide and overall machinery of Nazism.

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