Official Selection - Out of Competition · 46th Edition
Franz
FRANZ
Director
Agnieszka Holland
Country
Czech Republic, Germany, Poland
Runtime
1 h 26 min
Language
German, Czech
Premiere
MENA premiere (Middle East and North Africa)
Synopsis
Agnieszka Holland embarks on her most ambitious project to date, a biopic of the iconic 20th-century Czech writer Franz Kafka. Conceived as a kaleidoscopic mosaic, the film follows the imprint Kafka left on the world, from his birth in 19th-century Prague to his death in post-WW1 Vienna. Franz offers a brand-new perspective on the life of the man behind the literary giant.
Cast
Idan Weiss, Peter Kurth, Jenovéfa Boková, káIvan Trojan
Screenplay
Marek Epstein
Producers
Šárka Cimbalová, Agnieszka Holland, Uwe Schott, Jorgo Narjes, Marcin Wierzchosławski, Alicja Jagodzińska
About the Director
She is a Polish film director and scriptwriter, born in Warsaw in 1948. After graduating from FAMU in Prague in 1971, she began her career as an assistant director to Krzysztof Zanussi and was mentored by Andrzej Wajda. Throughout her career, she has been nominated three times for the Academy Award for Angry Harvest (1985), Europa Europa (1990), and In Darkness (2012).
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