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.

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