Event Details
In person: Agnieszka Holland
Based on the life of German-speaking Jewish-Czech modernist author Franz Kafka, who died in 1924 at 40 after publishing three novels and a handful of short stories and parables, Franz was a natural story for Holland to adapt into a film: she read his famous Metamorphosis when she was 14 and felt “since that time, Kafka is my brother” (Screen Daily). Wanting to give the character “light—and some punk infusion,” Holland takes a playful approach to the author’s idiosyncratic personality through “some kind of biography” that she hopes appeals to young people who might not be familiar with this man who has been written about far more voluminously than he was able to write for himself.
Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.
2025 | 127 min. | Czechia, Poland, Germany, France, Turkey | Color, Black-and-white | German, Czech, Yiddish, English, French, Japanese with English subtitles | Not Rated | DCP
DIRECTED BY: Agnieszka Holland
PRODUCED BY: Šárka Cimbalová, Agnieszka Holland
WRITTEN BY: Marek Epstein
WITH: Peter Kurth, Daniel Dongres, Idan Weiss, Aaron Friesz