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Labyrint

11/27/1991

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0hr 0min

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STORY

Film makes the creative process visible by letting its narrative flow in the mind of a foreign director who is researching a film about Franz Kafka in Prague. Based on the principle of dreams and free association, segments unfold that deal with the various points of view that Kafka's work, personality and fate offer. In the labyrinth of his mind, the fictional director projects himself into situations from the author's life, with Kafka himself as his guide. At the same time, he delves into the history of the persecution of the Jews and glimpses the monstrosity of the bureaucratic apparatus that Kafka anticipated but could not have foreseen the monstrous size and function it would grow to a few years after his death in the institutionalized genocide and overall machinery of Nazism.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Maximilian Schell
  • Christopher Chaplin
  • Christian Thuri
  • Miloš Kopecký
  • Vlastimil Brodský

    Director

  • Jaromil Jireš

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Art Oko Film

    Production Countries

  • Czechoslovakia
  • Germany

LANGUAGES

  • Czech

Cast

Maximilian Schell

The Filmmaker

Christopher Chaplin

Franz Kafka

Christian Thuri

David Hilsner

Miloš Kopecký

Rabbi Löw

Vlastimil Brodský

Löbl

Antonia Miklíková

Esther

Daniel Margolius

Simon

Milan Šimáček

Ludvík Pozník

Oto Ševčík

SS man Günther