Franz

Franz Kafka, a young man trapped in a nightmare of bureaucratic everyday life which resembles today’s reality of employees of huge corporations. Vegetarian by choice, before it was a thing. Son of a tyrannical father entangled in fragile relationships with women. Deep in an existential crisis long before loneliness became a side effect of social media. Misunderstood and full of fears, he would escape into a world of irony, the absurd and his imagination as he created literary works that made him one of the most outstanding writers of the 20th century.

Credits

Reżyseria

Agnieszka Holland

written by: Marek Epstein, Agnieszka Holland

director of photography: Tomasz Naumiuk

music: Mary Komasa, Antoni Komasa-Łazarkiewicz

production design: Henrich Boráros

costume: Michaela Horáčková Hořejší

make-up: Gabriela Polakova

sound: Marek Hart, Michaela Patrikova, Peter Hilcansky, Jan Martinek

edited by: Pavel Hrdlička

casting by: Simone Bär, Alexandra Montag, Anna Slater, Madla Zachariasova

cast: Idan Weiss, Peter Kurth, Jenovéfa Boková, Ivan Trojan, Sandra Korzeniak, Katharina Stark, Sebastian Schwarz, Aaron Friesz, Carol Schuler, Gesa Schermuly, Josef Trojan, Jan Budař

production

Marlene Film Production, Metro Films, X Filme Creative Pool

producers: Sarka Cimbalova, Agnieszka Holland, Marcin Wierzchosławski, Alicja Jagodzińska, Uwe Schott, Jorgo Narjes

executive producers: Mike Downey, Kevan Van Thompson, Daniel Bergmann, Jeff Field, Emil Kulal Haznevi

production manager: Ondrej Nerud

co-produced by: Marlene Film Production, Metro Films, X Filme Creative Pool, Telewizja Polska S.A., Czech Television, ZDF/ARTE, CANAL+ Polska, Barrandov Studio, Czech Anglo Productions, BAC Films, NeoSynCon

co-financed by: Eurimages, Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej, Czech Audiovisual Fund, Prague Audiovisual Fund, Ministerstvo životního prostředí, Ústecký kraj, Pilsen Region, Berlin-Brandenburg, Volapuk, Bluetech, ČPP Vienna Insurance Group, New Motion, SProAlfa, Quadrio

distributed by: Kino Świat

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