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Kafka ( 1991 ) (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
98 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1991 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Steven Soderbergh

Written By:
Lem Dobbs

Actors:
Jeremy Irons ..... Franz Kafka
Theresa Russell ..... Gabriela
Joel Grey ..... Burgel
Ian Holm ..... Doctor Murnau
Jeroen Krabbe ..... Bizzlebek
Armin Mueller-Stahl ..... Grubach
Alec Guinness ..... The Chief Clerk
Brian Glover ..... Castle Henchman
Keith Allen ..... Assistant Ludwig
Simon McBurney ..... Assistant Oscar
Robert Flemyng ..... The Keeper of the Files
Matyelok Gibbs ..... Concierge
Ion Caramitru ..... Solemn Anarchist
Hilde Van Mieghem ..... Female Anarchist
Jan Nemejovsky ..... Mustachioed Anarchist

Synopsis:

Steve Soderbergh did a 180 degree turnaround from his debut film sex, lies, and videotape with Kafka, a stark art-film fable for literature majors. Jeremy Irons plays a fictional Franz Kafka, living in Prague in 1919. By day, Kafka works in a massive, impersonal insurance company. At night, he spends his time alone writing stories about men who turn into giant cockroaches. Although quiet and solitary, he becomes a suspect in a murder investigation conducted by Inspector Grubach (Armin Mueller-Stahl) when a friend of his turns up dead. Rather than being harassed by Grubach, Kafka decides to investigate his friend's murder on his own. Kafka speaks to his dead friend's girlfriend, Gabriela (Theresa Russell) and talks with gravestone carver Bizzlebek (Jeroen Krabbe). Kafka follows the clues to the Castle, a menacing tower that casts its shadow over the city and houses files on everything. He winds his way through the cellars and tunnels of the Castle, where he encounters the evil and insidious Dr. Murnau (Ian Holm), whom he hopes holds the solution to the murder.

Kafka, an insurance worker gets embroiled in an underground group after a co-worker is murdered. The underground group is responsible for bombings all over town, attempting to thwart a secret organization that controls the major events in society. He eventually penetrates the secret organization and must confront them.

Writer Franz Kafka works during the day at an insurance company where events lead him to discover a mysterious underground society with strange suppressive goals.

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