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Kafka

Year:
Duration:
98 min | Germany:92 min (TV version)
Genres:
Comedy | Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
IMDB rate:
7
Director:
Steven Soderbergh
Awards:
1 win & 1 nomination
Details
Country: France
Release Date: 1991-11-15
Filming Locations: Barrandov Studios, Prague, Czech Republic
Earnings
Budget: $11,000,000
Opening Weekend: $40,814 (USA) (6 December 1991)
Gross: $1,059,071 (USA)€171,319 (Spain)
Cast
Actor
Character
Jeremy Irons
Kafka
Theresa Russell
Gabriela
Joel Grey
Burgel
Ian Holm
Doctor Murnau
Jeroen Krabbé
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
Ion Caramitru
Solemn Anarchist
Hilde Van Mieghem
Female Anarchist (as Hilde Van Meighem)
Jan Nemejovský
Mustachioed Anarchist
Toon Agterberg
Youthful Anarchist
Maria Miles
Anna
Vladimír Gut
Edward
Emil Wolk
Man Under Microscope
Josef Abrhám
Friend of Kafka
Guy Fithen
Friend of Kafka
Zuzana Halustokova
Friend of Kafka
Ondrej Havelka
Friend of Kafka
Lenka Korínková
Friend of Kafka
Petr Lepsa
Friend of Kafka
Leon Silver
Friend of Kafka
Debora Weston
Friend of Kafka
Jan Slovák
Man at Bar
David Shaw Parker
Interrogating Attendant
Ewan Stewart
Castle Attendant
James McPhee
Castle Attendant
Lubos Rychvalsky
Kidnapped Vagrant
Pavel Myslik
Vagrant (as Pavel Myslík)
Frantisek Stupka
Vagrant
Petr Jákl
Quarry Labourer
Karel Belohradský
Inspector's Assistant
Josef Sebek
Inspector's Assistant
Robert Krejcik
Evil Wagon Driver
Vitezslav Bouchner
Lens room cleaner
David Jensen
The Laughing Man
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Trivia
When Kafka first talks with Bizzlebek, he mentions that he read "That story about the Penal Colony". He is referring to the short story, "The Penal Colony". In it, Kafka describes the last use of an elaborate torture and execution device that carves the sentence of the condemned prisoner on his skin in a script before letting him die, all in the course of twelve hours.
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Just before going to the Castle, Kafka ask Bizzlebek to burn his manuscripts if he never came back. Bizzlebek replies "such an extraordinary request". This is in reference of the real request Kafka asked his friend Max Brod before dying. Brod couldn't go with the request and had Kafka's work published.
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Film debut of Simon McBurney.
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Quotes
Franz Kafka: I write by myself... for myself.
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Oscar: [to Kafka] Miss Rossman was here looking for you.
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Franz Kafka: When a document is sent to the Medical Records Division, is it possible to recall it for a view?
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Photos from cast
Jerome Flynn Matyelok Gibbs
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