Franz Kafka

Odradek (2024)

In a huge and empty neoclassical mansion surrounded by an indefinite war, the daughter of a bourgeois family returns from Europe bringing a Kafkaesque toy. Because of this object without specific usefulness, everyone in the family begins to discuss life an ...

Crust (2024)

12-year-old Fabi has to finally prove himself as one of the family - by getting his first scar. ...

Piquenique no Castelo (2024)

Friends who intend to have a picnic at the Castle go through a bureaucratic tangle to obtain authorization for the picnic to take place. Based on the book "The Castle" by Franz Kafka. ...

The Metamorphosis (2024)

As Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning from unsettling dreams, he finds himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous vermin. ...

Kafka: Proces (2023)

Mauro Bigonzetti's ballet based on Franz Kafka, performed by the National Theatre Ballet. Choreographer Mauro Bigonzetti, fascinated by the irresistible language of Prague native Franz Kafka and the enduring relevance of his novel "The Trial," was drawn in ...

Ecdysis: The Newborn (2023)

Within the depths of an enigmatic origin, a being flourishes, cocconed in a cocoon akin to that of a caterpillar. This creature, an apparent hybrid, shatters its confinements breaking free and rises in a peculiar, but captivating manner. ...

The Damned Yard (2023)

In an ominous Lisbon courtyard where the last executioner of the kingdom once lived, an accident is waiting to happen. After a patient game of who's observing who, four characters will collide with dire consequences. Inspired by the novel The Damned Yard b ...

The Burrow (2019)

Being the story of a critter and his "perfect" burrow. A stop-motion animation by Forrest Rice. Based on the original story by Franz Kafka. ...

In Our Synagogue (2019)

A boy tries to find out what happened in the old local synagogue. Obsessed, he is chasing something he never saw and does not pay any attention to what is happening around him. Inspired by Franz Kafkas unfinished novel. ...

Mr Rotpeter (2017)

The curious adventure of Mr Rotpeter, a monkey turned into a man. Starting from Kafka's novel 'A Report to an Academy', Antonietta De Lillo's movie sets Mr Rotpeter's adventure in a nowadays Naples. Its peculiar storytelling flows between a faraway past an ...

The Judgment (2016)

Adapted from the short story by Franz Kafka, The Judgment is a psychological drama exploring themes of alienation, memory, and the lines between fantasy and reality. The film follows Georg Bendemann, a young merchant living 1900s Prague, who is struggling ...

Métamorphose (2016)

One morning, after a night of anguish, a symptom of an unconscious revolt, a man wakes up transformed. He tries to reach his parents who knock on his door. With painful effort, he manages to open the door, but at the sight of him, frightened and disgusted ...

Artist of Fasting (2016)

A wordless man stages an unexplained hunger strike and the people surrounding him exploit his silence to further their own cause... ...

The Castle (2015)

Based on Franz Kafka's The Castle. A certain K. appears in a snow-covered godforsaken village as if out of nowhere. All the power in the village belongs to the mysterious Castle that strangers are barred from accessing. K. presents himself to the locals as ...

The Great Wall (2015)

'The Great Wall has been completed at its most southerly point.' So begins Kafka's short story 'At the Building of the Great Wall of China', and so, at Europe's heavily militarised south-eastern frontier, begins this film. In the shadow of its own narrati ...

K (2015)

A mongolian interpretation of Kafka's "The Castle". ...

The Burrow (2014)

KAFKA'S THE BURROW tells the story of a man's "metamorphosis" (as Kafka would put it) in a rapidly changing and increasingly isolated world. A man, who has seemingly achieved everything, ensconces himself in his burrow, a fortress-like apartment complex. B ...

People in Places (2013)

A fragmented view of contemporary Spain, drawing conclusions about the persistence of the human condition, strangeness, and the chaos within relationships. ...

Appunti per un film su Kafka - Nella colonia penale (2013)

A soldier is sentenced to death for failing to "honor his superior. ...

Metamorphosis (2012)

Gregor Samsa, a traveling salesman, wakes up in his bed to find himself transformed into a large insect. After the metamorphosis, he becomes confined to his room and neglected by his family. ...

The Island of the Dead (2012)

A soldier is about to be executed because of his disobedience. The execution will be carried out by an ancient machine which engraves a sentence (the committed crime) on a man's skin. What would happen if silent-film fan Franz Kafka were to ask FW Murnau t ...

Jackals and Arabs (2011)

A Kafka dialogue is read by actors in Straub's own apartment in Paris. ...

The Toledo Report (2009)

A series of 15 prints inspired by "A Report for an Academy" by Franz Kafka, provokes this look at the life of the artist and social activist Francisco Toledo. ...

Metamorphosis (2008)

Based on 'Frank Kafka"s Metamorphose story, the documentary presents 2 metamorphosis of the present society: anorexia, as an disruption of our self-perception; depression, as an isolating illness ; and physically handicapped conditions, as mobility problem ...

Franz Kafka's a Country Doctor (2007)

A hapless country doctor describes with breathless urgency a night-time summons to attend a young patient. Events soon take on a surreal aspect as "unearthly horses" transport him instantaneously to the bedside. The doctor, preoccupied with personal distra ...

The Metamorphosis (2007)

Pedro is a young man, carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders, but one day, he wakes up feeling different. ...

The Man Who Waited (2006)

For his entire life, a man has waited outside a closed door. What lies behind? The truth he seeks or another door? ...

Human Body (2004)

An adaptation of Kafka's "A Country Doctor". A doctor is to make out a death certificate to a little boy, but the disorder is different from what he assumed. ...

Metamorfosis (2004)

A young man's family has trouble adjusting to his sudden transformation into a giant bug. ...

Metamorphosis (2002)

Based on Kafka's story of the same name, "The Metamorphosis" tells the story of a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, who wakes up one morning to find himself transformed into a gigantic insect. ...

Ein Brudermord (2002)

The Hunger Artist (2002)

Set in a city both past and present, on a deserted street where only the distant sounds of life blow by. The Hunger Artist stands alone, locked in his cage. Once famous and adored by the crowds, he now performs alone. ...

K (2002)

Three stories. We see, but little is explained. In "The Married Couple," a salesman pays a call on an old customer who is with his wife in the upstairs bedroom of their ill adult son. Another salesman may beat him to the punch, but not before disorienting ...

Les animals (2001)

K.aF.ka - Fragment (2001)

An experimental study about the love between Franz Kafka and his adored Felice based on their correspondence. ...

Metamorphosis: Beyond the Screen Door (1997)

In director Norith Soth's modern retelling of Franz Kafka's classic tale, young Tom Gregor wants nothing more than to support and serve his family -- a mission that falters when he's overcome by a mysterious illness. With his parents too old to work and hi ...

Bättre utan hund (1996)

On the comic tragedy of loneliness, based on the short story "Blumfeld, an elderly bachelor" by Franz Kafka. ...

The Country Doctor (1996)

An animation based on a short story by Franz Kafka about a country doctor interrupted by an alarm clock on a quiet home evening. In a bomb-ravaged room are waiting a dying child and a group of black market traders playing cards. ...

Land Surveyor (1995)

Animated film based on F. Kafka's work "The Castle". It was created at the studio of the Naumov brothers in 1993. Technology - plasticine lining. ...

The Castle (1994)

Closely based on Franz Kafka's book "Das Schloß", the movie shares the same action on a land surveyor who is called to a village to do a job that no one seems to have ordered. Once there, he takes up the struggle against bureaucracy emanating from the cas ...

The Chamber Stork (1994)

The second part of the Kafka trilogy. In the evening, the fluffy bookmaker arrives at his home, in the elevator engine room, and finds an immense, humming egg on his table. ...

Amerika (1994)

Vladimír Michálek chose an unconventional adaptation of Franz Kafka's novel for his feature debut. Artistically reminiscent of the classic films of Karel Zeman, the director reinterpreted this dark story of a man vainly seeking a place in a rigidly order ...

The Mix-up (1994)

Ihsan is a simple employee in the Ministry of Culture from the house to the office and vice versa his work colleague Nargis loves and plans to marry him. ...

Josephine the Singer and the Mice People (1994)

The mice people live in an enormous theatre, expectantly awaiting the ambiguous show by Josefina. ...

Procesas (1994)

Based on the novel of the same name by Franz Kafka. ...

The Trial (1993)

Joseph K. awakes one morning, to find two strange men in his room, telling him he has been arrested. Joseph is not told what he is charged with, and despite being "arrested," is allowed to remain free and go to work. But despite the strange nature of his a ...

The Metamorphosis of Franz Kafka (1993)

Free adaptation based on Kafka's "The Metamorphosis". The action is in Praga occupied by Germans, at home of a Jew family (maybe the Kafka's). Novel's room of Gregor Samsa is replaced by an enormous library. ...

Mutant Action (1993)

Waging war against all things glamorous and beautiful, crippled terrorists Acción Mutante plot a series of attacks on society's elite, and attempt the kidnapping of a wealthy socialite at her elaborate wedding reception. ...

Rider on a Bucket (1992)

Happened in Prague on a cold February evening, 1917: the poor violinist's atrium runs out of coal and his dancing mouse becomes ill. The coal bucket is empty, and without sparing any effort, the faithful bucket rides its master through the air towards the ...

La Metamorfosi (1988)

The short film, a collaboration between the multimedia research group Giovanotti Mondani Meccanici and Loretta Mugnai, combines both film and electronic elements. It is an adaptation of the famous story by Kafka. Julia Anzillotti portrays Mrs. Samsa, known ...

El prontuario del señor K (1987)

Metamorphosis (1987)

TV film of Steven Berkoff's stage adaption of Kafka's famous story in which a young man, who is the sole financial supporter of his family, awakes one morning in the form of a giant dung beetle and thereby becomes a nuisance to his family, who must now lea ...

Linna (1986)

Based on Franz Kafka's famous novel, director Jaakko Pakkasvirta created this interpretation of the woebegone Josef K., who is trapped in an ever-increasing labyrinth of double talk and bureaucratic nonsense in his efforts to reach the castle. As Josef see ...

Class Relations (1984)

A young man, recently arrived in New York from Europe, becomes swept up in a series of events that are beyond his knowledge or control. ...

La Métamorphose (1983)

A young man wakes up one day transformed into a giant insect. ...

Une villa aux environs de New York (1982)

Karl, a young immigrant, lives with his uncle in New York who jealously watches over the education of his nephew. A friend, Mr. Pallunder invites Karl to spend a night at his house. Despite strong opposition from his uncle, Karl agrees. On the way, Karl re ...

A Hunger Artist (1982)

Based on Kafka's 1922 short story about a hunger artist. ...

The Trial (1980)

An adaptation of Franz Kafka's "The Trial" ...

"Amerika" vor Augen oder Kafka in 43 Min. 30 Sec. (1978)

Essay film about Franz Kafka's novel "Amerika". ...

The Metamorphosis of Mr. Samsa (1978)

An animated adaptation of Franz Kafka's acclaimed novella, "The Metamorphosis," made from carving images into sand with glass. ...

The Metamorphosis (1976)

A Swedish adaptation of the Franz Kafka novella. Gregor Samsa, wakes one morning to find himself transformed into a large, monstrous beetle. ...

Metamorphosis (1975)

Travelling salesman Gregor Samsa wakes to find that he's been transformed into a giant insect. This particular Franz Kafka adaptation is seen from Gregor's point of view, continuing to explore themes of alienation, family duty, and the absurdity of modern ...

An Imperial Message (1975)

An Imperial Message is a 1975 Hungarian experimental film directed by László Najmányi. The 'story' was based on Franz Kafka's short story Eine kaiserliche Botschaft. ...

Az ítélet (1972)

The Penal Colony (1970)

A foreign journalist arrives on a small Pacific island 200 miles off the coast of South America. Once a leper colony, the island was later transformed into a prison and then, under U.N. mandate, made into an independent republic. Yet despite democratic str ...

Amerika oder der Verschollene (1969)

Young Karl Roßmann emigrates to the USA, meets a rich man whose money Karl initially lives off, but who soon throws him out again. ...

The Castle (1968)

A man comes to a small village to begin his new job as an attendant at the nearby castle. But everybody in the village claims that he surely must be mistaken, there is no need for an attendant at the castle. ...

The Warden of the Tomb (1965)

An nobleman question an aged grave warden, whose sickness seems to be due to the ghosts who haunt his workplace. ...

La metamorfosis (1964)

Gregor Samsa tries to get up to go to work, but realizes that during the night he has turned into a gigantic insect. Venezuelan adaptation based on Jorge Luis Borges' translation of Franz Kafka's novel. ...

A Report to an Academy (1963)

An ape named Rotpeter, who has learned to behave like a human, presents to an academy the story of how he effected his transformation. ...

The Trial (1962)

Arrested for an unnamed crime, Josef K. is trapped in a surreal bureaucratic maze where justice is unknowable and guilt is assumed. ...

Das Schloß (1962)

Prosessen (1962)

Adaptation of Kafka's famous novel for Norwegian TV. Joseph K. discovers two policeme in his appartment, while in the middle of the morning routine. These men lead him into a nonsensical labyrith of a legal system. ...

L'arresto (1954)

Film based on the first chapter of Kafka's "The Trial. ...

K (1954)

Short film adaptation of Kafka's 'The Metamorphosis'. ...

The Country Doctor (1953)

Adaptation of a Kafka short story, believed lost for more than 60 years. ...

A Daily Mix-up (1950)

A short film based on a story by Franz Kafka. Two men meet to resolve an issue, but are unable to do so due to a series of adverse circumstances. ...

Kafka Goes to the Movies (2002)

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-fiv ...