Kafka Goes to the Movies (2002)

Kafka Goes to the Movies

2002

Documentary

Synopsis

While working on a television movie project about Franz Kafka, German actor Hanns Zischler discovered a series of passionate writings in Kafka's journals about his own moviegoing. Zischler, who also wrote a book of the same title, spent the next twenty-five years combing through archives and libraries to locate many of the now-extinct films cited by Kafka in his journals. The result is a witty conjecture on the Czech writer's fascination with film and Zischler's fascination with Kafka.

Credits

Director

Hanns Zischler

Cast

Franz Kafka as self

Crew

Miriam Fassbender (Cinematography)

Ute Adamczewski (Cinematography)

Hanns Zischler (Editor)

Peter I. Sabat (Editor)

Christian Baute (Producer)

Herbert Gaesch (Sound)