Kafka [1991] Jeremy Irons

http://bayimg.com/OaknOAADH Kafka (1991) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102181/ Kafka is a mystery thriller 1991 film based on the life and work of writer Franz Kafka. The film attempted to blur the lines between the surreal and the real, creating a Kafkaesque atmosphere thereby. It was directed by Steven Soderbergh, written by Lem Dobbs, and stars Jeremy Irons in the title role along with Theresa Russell, Sir Ian Holm, Jeroen Krabbé, Joel Grey, Armin Mueller-Stahl, and Sir Alec Guinness. 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 Matyelok Gibbs ... Concierge Ion Caramitru ... Solemn Anarchist Hilde Van Mieghem ... Female Anarchist Jan Nemejovsky ... Mustachioed Anarchist Set in the city of Prague of 1919, Kafka tells the tale of an insurance worker who gets involved with an underground group after one of his co-workers is murdered. The underground group, responsible for bombings all over town, attempts to thwart a secret organization that controls the major events in society. He eventually penetrates the secret organization in order to confront them. Independent Spirit Awards 1992 Won Independent Spirit Award Best Cinematography Walt Lloyd 1992 Nominated Independent Spirit Award Best Screenplay Lem Dobbs Although Lem Dobbs follows what James Hawes referred to as the ‘Kafka Myth’ in his book Excavating Kafka, presenting a solitary, withdrawn figure, rather than the sociable and charming figure Kafka apparently was, he combines elements of the author’s life with nightmares from his fiction. Kafka did work for an insurance company and wrote through the night. There are hints in the film of his troubled relationship with his father and his inability to commit to a relationship. There are allusions to his work most notably in the presence of The Castle, which in Kafka’s fiction is unknowable, and unreachable, but here reveals its secrets, although they are fairly banal compared to Kafka’s nightmares. Steven Soderbergh won huge acclaim and the Palme ‘D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival for his debut movie Sex, Lies and Videotape. Following up such success with his second film was always going to be difficult and making a black and white semi-fictional biopic of Franz Kafka using techniques borrowed from German Expressionism is probably asking for a kicking. Kafka was initially released in the US in 1991, but it would be another three years before it briefly turned up in a handful of UK cinemas. Although Kafka is regarded as a miserabilist, his writing is often very funny. The masterful short story ‘The Rebuff’ is barely half a page long, but skewer’s the romantic longing of both sexes with a perfect aim. The preference for films about, or based on work by ‘serious’ writers, and few are taken as seriously as Kafka, is that they be serious. Witness the austere and lifeless version of The Trial (David Hugh Jones 1993) with the perfectly cast Kyle MacLachlan trapped in a lousy production, just as surely as Josef K is trapped by the law. Lem Dobbs script has plenty of humour and Soderbergh has essentially placed the great novelist in a highbrow zombie film, like The Third Man (Carol Reed 1949) crossed with George Romero. Maybe this seemed incongruous to some critics, but it is closer to the spirit of Kafka’s work than they realise.

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brutal_product (2011-10-15)

tyvm, i think

idxcue (2011-10-15)

Thank you sir. you're a gentlemen and a scholar. keep uploading the great torrents

mozzers (2012-05-04)

thank you, TW. : )

IdaTarbell (2013-10-26)

Soderbergh & Studio are allowing this to play on youtube with, yes, English subs, but they're really google english translations and imprecise. I nevertheless would like to know HOW to make files from youtube videos without subjecting my puters to toxic toolbars and invasive software. Is there a way? If so, write me: mr1111@charter.com. KAFKA's english is tough sometimes to understand. Could someone get hold of subtitles? Commercial DVDs of this are unavailable.