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Kafka (2024)
Popularity 8.2
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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.
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Joel BasmanFranz Kafka
David KrossMax Brod
Maresi RiegnerOttla Kafka
Nicholas OfczarekHermann Kafka
Lia von BlarerFelice Bauer
Liv Lisa FriesMilena Jesenská
Tamara Romera GinésDora Dymant
Robert StadloberFelix Weltsch
Verena AltenbergerRobert Musil
Judith AltenbergerErna Bauer
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Konstantin FrankJizchak Löwy
Anne BennentAnna Bauer
Charly HübnerRowohlt
Lars EidingerRainer Maria Rilke
Katharina ThalbachVermieterin
Marie-Lou SellemJulie Kafka
Christian FriedelFranz Werfel
Michael MaertensErzähler
Key Crew
David SchalkoDirector
Daniel KehlmannWriter
Daniel KehlmannScreenplay
Angelika CechSecond Assistant Director
Caspar ThielThird Assistant Director
David SchalkoProducer
David SchalkoCo-Writer
Florian EngelhardtFirst Assistant Director
Florian EngelhardtProducer
John LueftnerProducer
Katharina TheissenProducer
Konrad SulzmannSecond Assistant Director
Livia PernhauptThird Assistant Director
Magdalena LySecond Assistant Director
Nikolaus KantnerThird Assistant Director
Raoul BruckAdditional Second Assistant Director
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Specials
1 episodes · First aired 2024-03-25
E01
Kafka and Me - Who was the legendary Writer?
2024-03-25 · 44 min
Season 1
6 episodes · First aired 2024-03-26 · ★ 6.8
E01
Max
2024-03-26 · 42 min
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a well-connected writer and editor who saves his close friend's work from oblivion by breaking his promise to burn all unpublished papers after Franz's death; Max carries them to safety on the last train out of Prague at the onset of WW2.
E02
Felice
2024-03-26 · 48 min
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.
E03
Family
2024-03-26 · 45 min
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.
E04
Bureau
2024-03-27 · 44 min
Kafka has an ambiguous relationship with his workplace; a brilliant insurance lawyer, Kafka is highly respected by his colleagues who, at the height of WW1, save his life by preventing him from enlisting.
E05
Milena
2024-03-27 · 43 min
Kafka has a brief but intense relationship with the charismatic writer Milena Jesenská, who translated his work from German to Czech; he revealed his most intimate self to her and entrusted her with the safekeeping of his diaries.
E06
Dora
2024-03-27 · 46 min
Kafka has a last great love, Dora Dymant, whom he meets in a Baltic sea resort which his imagination turns into the mythical village of his final novel "The Castle"; after moving in together to a flat in Berlin, Dora cares for Kafka until the end.
