Biographical film about writer Franz Kafka announced

Biographical film about writer Franz Kafka announced

The producers, always according to the specialized website, are in negotiations for an international sale of the film, which is estimated to be filmed in the spring of 2023.

It will be “a dazzling kaleidoscopic mosaic of a film that dramatizes the famous writer’s life and imagination in a series of self-contained vignettes, spanning Kafka’s life from his birth in pre-World War I Prague to his tragic death.” in Berlin in 1924 and scenes from the future”, was the description of the project by the producers.

The production will be in charge of Mark Epstein Y Sarka Cimbalovawho accompanied Holland in “Charlatan” (2019). sam taylor Y mike downeyof Film and Music Entertainment (F&ME), will serve as co-producers.

It will be the second time that an attempt will be made to bring the figure of Kafka to the big screen. The first, led by Steven Soderbergh and starring Jeremy Ironswas not strictly biographical, but was based on a free adaptation of passages from the life of the writer, interspersed with parts of “The Castle” Y “The process”two of his main works.

In fact, “The process” It was made into a movie in 1962 by Orson Wellswith Anthony Perkins as Joseph K, and in 1993 by David Hugh-Joneswith Kyle MacLachlan as the iconic Kafkaesque character and the participation of Anthony Hopkins as the judge.

Born in Prague in 1883, Kafka died of tuberculosis in Austria in 1924. Despite being Czech, his production is written in German, due to the influence that not only German literature and philosophy had on him, but also handling the language of Goethe as a first language, thanks to his parents.

However, few were the texts that were known with Kafka in life. It was after his death, and against his will, that his friend and executor Max Brod It was decided to publish a large part of the production, including stories and novels that remained unfinished, such as “El Castillo” and “América”.

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