Kafka Goes to the Movies

Kafka Goes to the Movies

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jun 15, 2002

Runtime

0h 54m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

Kafka geht ins Kino

Director

Hanns Zischler

Description

While working on a television movie project about Franz Kafka, German actor Hanns Zischler discovered a series of passionate writings in Kafka's journals about his own moviegoing. Zischler, who also wrote a book of the same title, spent the next twenty-five years combing through archives and libraries to locate many of the now-extinct films cited by Kafka in his journals. The result is a witty conjecture on the Czech writer's fascination with film and Zischler's fascination with Kafka.