Movies and TvShows featuring "franz-kafka" theme.
In a dystopian society, a man is falsely accused of a crime he knows nothing about. He goes through a surreal trial where he encounters bizarre characters and experiences a waking nightmare. As the trial progresses, the man's guilt complex intensifies and he begins to question his own sanity. The trial becomes a reflection of the oppressive power relations and ambiguity of the judicial system.
A soldier is about to be executed because of his disobedience. The execution will be carried out by an ancient machine which engraves a sentence (the committed crime) on a man's skin. What would happen if silent-film fan Franz Kafka were to ask FW Murnau to make a movie of his short story In the Penal Colony?
Kafka, an insurance clerk, gets caught in a web of secret organizations and paranoia in an alternate reality version of Prague. As he uncovers the truth, Kafka becomes entangled in a revolution and struggles to maintain his sanity.
‘The Great Wall has been completed at its most southerly point.’ So begins Kafka’s short story ‘At the Building of the Great Wall of China’, and so, at Europe’s heavily militarised south-eastern frontier, begins this film. In the shadow of its own narratives of freedom, Europe has been quietly building its own great wall. Like its famous Chinese precursor, this wall has been piecemeal in construction, diverse in form and dubious in utility. Gradually cohering across the continent, this system of enclosure and exclusion is urged upon a populace seemingly willing to accept its necessity and to contribute to its building.
A Christmas Tale is a comedy-drama movie that revolves around a dysfunctional family as they come together during the Christmas season. The family faces various challenges and secrets which they must confront and overcome. Themes of banishment, family relationships, alcoholism, and disease intertwine with a mother-son relationship, debt, and a bone marrow transplant. The movie also features elements of a Christmas party, Christian mass, jogging, and watching TV. Family secrets, a letter, and a William Shakespeare quotation play a significant role in shaping the story. Set in France, the movie explores the complexities of relationships and features lesbian grandmother, strangers, and fireworks. Other elements include a barber, surgical operation, pianist, Christmas play, grave, dominoes, painting, and an art gallery. A fistfight, phonograph record, brother-sister relationship, photograph, and record player add further depth to the plot. The movie is set in Paris, France, and Roubaix-Flanders, and delves into themes of mental illness, nervous breakdown, and dysfunctional family dynamics.
An Art and a Short Film in which the director records his childhood experiences and memories through the mischievous activities of a boy named Mohammad Saadh.
Ihsan is a simple employee in the Ministry of Culture from the house to the office and vice versa his work colleague Nargis loves and plans to marry him. He is surprised by one of the security authorities arrested and directed a number of charges, which does not know the cause and continues to haunt him
Franz works for the Japanese, but makes a mistake and the corporation condemns him to wander through a harrowing virtual setting.
In Class Relations, a young woman in New York navigates the challenges of class struggle and family relationships while trying to find her place in a society plagued by alienation. Based on a novel, the film explores the Brechtian themes of labor and the impact of social hierarchy on individual lives.
During a walk in the woods a man stumbles upon a gate blocked by a guard who refuses to let him through. Gaining entry quickly becomes his obsession and only goal, to the detriment of all else, including his own physical and mental health.
Adaptation of a Kafka short story, believed lost for more than 60 years.
Short film adaptation of Kafka's 'The Metamorphosis'.
The life of Franz Kafka in a series of independent chapters: from his birth in 19th-century Prague to his final years in Berlin and death in 1924, and his imagined future.
As Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning from unsettling dreams, he finds himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.
Two people have a plan and head to a party
Filmmaker Richard Dindo's unique documentary uses historical reenactments and speculative "interviews" of historical figures to paint a fascinating portrait of one of the most influential writers of modern literature, renowned author Franz Kafka. Best known for his novel The Metamorphosis, Kafka was famously secretive and eccentric, and the details of his private life have become just as captivating to his fans as his work.
Grégoire Samsa is a solitary young man, a building caretaker, always ready to help everyone, in order to exist. Scorned, even by his adoptive mother, Grégoire will begin an uncontrolled mutation.