Kafka (film)
| Movie | |
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| German title | Kafka |
| Original title | Kafka |
| Country of production |
France USA |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1991 |
| length | 98 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Steven Soderbergh |
| script | Lem Dobbs |
| production |
Harry Benn Stuart Cornfeld |
| music | Cliff Martinez |
| camera | Walt Lloyd |
| cut | Steven Soderbergh |
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Kafka is an expressionist cinema- style thriller produced in 1991 under the direction of Steven Soderbergh . The dark, tense plot, a story of persecution and conspiracy in Prague around 1920, is filmed entirely in black and white ; only the scenes in a castle at the center of a demonic conspiracy are colored.
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In his film adaptation of Lem Dobbs ' screenplay, Soderbergh did not strive for a classic film biography of Franz Kafka , but rather linked motifs from his life with the content and atmosphere of his novels, in particular from " The Trial " and " The Castle ". Kafka works for an insurance company and spends his free time thinking up demonic stories. When a friend is murdered, he goes in search of the murderer. During his research, he comes across other unexplained deaths and comes across a political resistance group to which the friend belonged. Kafka follows the trail to the local castle, where he makes the gruesome discovery that a certain Dr. Murnau (a reminiscence of the Expressionist film with allusion to the director Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau ) experiments with the brains of his victims.
Reviews
- film-dienst 19/1992: His lust for stories, the brilliant leading actor and the wistful joke make the film an experience.
- epd Film 10/1992: Soderbergh's pretentious mix has about as much to do with Kafka as " The Metamorphosis " has with the " American Werewolf ". What wouldn't be so bad if the film didn't make constant use of Kafka without repaying with its own ideas. If the protagonist wasn't called Kafka, who would be interested in the plot anyway?
Awards
Walt Lloyd won the Independent Spirit Award in 1992 , Lem Dobbs was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award.
Web links
- Kafka in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Kafka at Rotten Tomatoes (English)