“Polish Writer and Director Agnieszka Holland Discussed Her New Biographical Franz, About Author Franz Kafka at The 59th Edition of The Karlovy Vary Vary Vary Vary Vary. Saying The Movie Triers to Find the “Essence” of the Novelist and Explores Themes That Are Still Topical, Including Kafka’s Thought on the Dangers of”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
The Filmmaker Unveiled the Trailer for the Movie, Starring German Actor Idan Weiss, Before Talking About the Creative Process of the Film. The Cast Also Includes the Likes of Jenovéfa Boková, Peter Kurtth, and Ivan Trojan. Holland Wrote the Script for the CZECH REPUBLIC, Poland, Germany, and France, with Marek Epsein (Charlatan), with Mike Downey Serving as Executive Producer.
“IT’s Great to See It on the Screen,“ Holland Said After The Trailer Debut.
She was in the past descripted kafka as akin to a brother real reading for the first time at the 14. “FIRST, I WAS LIVING IN COMMUNIST Poland and in Czechoslovakia, What Was Kafkaesque Was The Every Day Reality of These Countries, of these Regimes.”
She Shared That Kafka’s “Triple Identity” ALSO SPOKE TO HER AS A “HALF-POLISH, HALF-JEWISH [person] living in a strange antisemitic communist Country. ” Holland Also Emphasized that Kafka Was “Practical forbidden in Czechoslovakia Except for Short Periods” Under the Communist Regime.
After the Fall of Communism, “in the 21st Century, Slowly, Kafka Became The Biggest Public Tourist Attration and the Brand for ther [various souvenir] Gadgets, Frankly, “the Filmmaker Argued. The Goal of the Film is to Come Closer to and Answer to the Question of“ What Is The Essence of Kafka Culture. ”
The Film uses “An Associative Structure, More Than A Linear” Narrative Structure, She Adeded.
Holland Highlightned that themes in the Film, Such as Life with a patriarch, “the prison of the family,” the “Impossibility to communicate” and “his fear of close Identity,” Current and Topical, as Is His “Fatalism and PESSIMISM About Humanity” and “His Vision of the Dangers of the Future of Totalitarian Society, Which Is Ruducing the Induidual Tovidual Tole.
Asked About Become Kafka, Weiss SAID: “HE WAS IN MY BODY FOR A Long Time, and He Came Out.” He Locked HimSelf Into His Apartment for Two MONHS AND ONLY WENT OUT WHEN IT GOT DARK toing USED TO THE Darkness, The Actor Shared. “Franz for me is senystability,” he also said.
Meanwhile, Downey Highlighted Kafka’s “Rock Star Status.”
Honoring the Celebrared Czech Writer with A Retrospective Last Year, The Centenary of His Death, Kviff Highlightned How Filmmakers of movies that “kofkaesque,” meance that are filled with the kind of angst, alienation and absurdity that made the novelist one
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