Details

Release year: 1991

Storyline

Kafka works during the day at an insurance company, where events lead him to discover a mysterious underground society with strange suppressive goals.

Top credits

Directors

Steven Soderbergh

Writers

Lem Dobbs

Cast

Jeremy Irons — Kafka
Theresa Russell — Gabriela
Joel Grey — Burgel
Ian Holm — Dr. Murnau

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Did you know

• Just before going to the Castle, Kafka (Jeremy Irons) ask Bizzlebek (Jeroen Krabbé) 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.

• Loosely based on Franz Kafka's novel, "The Castle". In it, a protagonist, known only as "K", struggles to gain access to the mysterious authorities of a castle, who govern the village for unknown reasons. Kafka died before finishing the work.

• In the end of the movie, Kafka can be seen coughing up blood. Kafka began to suffer from tuberculosis in 1917, and died on June 3, 1924.