Kafka
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.
Overview
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
Producer
Episodes
1. 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a well-connected writer and editor who saves his close friend's work from oblivion by breaking his promise to burn all unpublished papers after Franz's death; Max carries them to safety on the last train out of Prague at the onset of WW2.
2. 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.
3. 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.
Cast & Crew
Joel Basman
Franz Kafka
David Kross
Max Brod
Maresi Riegner
Ottla Kafka
Nicholas Ofczarek
Hermann Kafka
Lia von Blarer
Felice Bauer
Liv Lisa Fries
Milena Jesenská
