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Kafka

Kafka
★ 7.1/10•2024•4h 28m•12•Drama
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The story of Franz Kafka's life from different perspectives. Presenting his difficult relationship with his domineering father Hermann, his deep friendship with Max Brod and his various love affairs.

David Schalko · Director

Daniel Kehlmann · Writer

Daniel Kehlmann · Screenplay

StatusEnded
Runtime4h 28m
LanguageDE
First Air DateMar 26, 2024

Episodes

Episode 1 - MaxE142m

Max

Max Brod is a well-connected writer and editor who saves his close friend's work from oblivion by breaking his promise to burn all unpublished papers after Franz's death; Max carries them to safety on the last train out of Prague at the onset of WW2.

Mar 26, 2024

Episode 2 - FeliceE248m

Felice

Kafka has a turbulent relationship with his on and off fiancée Felice Bauer; after getting to know each other mainly through letters, their engagement is broken off, renewed, only to be broken off again.

Mar 26, 2024

Episode 3 - FamilyE345m

Family

Kafka's father --to whom Franz will address a merciless indictment of over 100 pages, never sent in his lifetime but posthumously published as "Letter to the Father"-- is strict and domineering.

Mar 26, 2024

Episode 4 - BureauE444m

Bureau

Kafka has an ambiguous relationship with his workplace; a brilliant insurance lawyer, Kafka is highly respected by his colleagues who, at the height of WW1, save his life by preventing him from enlisting.

Mar 27, 2024

Episode 5 - MilenaE543m

Milena

Kafka has a brief but intense relationship with the charismatic writer Milena Jesenská, who translated his work from German to Czech; he revealed his most intimate self to her and entrusted her with the safekeeping of his diaries.

Mar 27, 2024

Episode 6 - DoraE646m

Dora

Kafka has a last great love, Dora Dymant, whom he meets in a Baltic sea resort which his imagination turns into the mythical village of his final novel "The Castle"; after moving in together to a flat in Berlin, Dora cares for Kafka until the end.

Mar 27, 2024

Actors

Joel Basman

Joel Basman

Franz Kafka

David Kross

David Kross

Max Brod

Maresi Riegner

Maresi Riegner

Ottla Kafka

Nicholas Ofczarek

Nicholas Ofczarek

Hermann Kafka

Lia von Blarer

Lia von Blarer

Felice Bauer

Liv Lisa Fries

Liv Lisa Fries

Milena Jesenská

Tamara Romera Ginés

Tamara Romera Ginés

Dora Dymant

Robert Stadlober

Robert Stadlober

Felix Weltsch

Verena Altenberger

Verena Altenberger

Robert Musil

Judith Altenberger

Judith Altenberger

Erna Bauer

Konstantin Frank

Jizchak Löwy

Anne Bennent

Anne Bennent

Anna Bauer

Charly Hübner

Charly Hübner

Rowohlt

Lars Eidinger

Lars Eidinger

Rainer Maria Rilke

Katharina Thalbach

Katharina Thalbach

Vermieterin

Marie-Lou Sellem

Marie-Lou Sellem

Julie Kafka

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