Kafka Goes to the Movies Trailer
Franz Kafka was a German-speaking Jewish novelist and short story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work, which fuses elements of realism and the fantastic, typically features isolated protagonists faced by bizarre or surrealistic predicaments and incomprehensible social-bureaucratic powers, and has been interpreted as exploring themes of alienation, existential anxiety, guilt, and absurdity.
Total trailers found: 94
26 October 1981
A man murders his brother in a crime of jealous passion. An adaptation of Franz Kafka's short story of the same name.
01 January 1988
The short film, a collaboration between the multimedia research group Giovanotti Mondani Meccanici and Loretta Mugnai, combines both film and electronic elements.
01 January 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.
15 June 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.
12 January 1976
A Swedish adaptation of the Franz Kafka novella. Gregor Samsa, wakes one morning to find himself transformed into a large, monstrous beetle.
01 January 1982
Based on Kafka's 1922 short story about a hunger artist.
20 September 1978
Essay film about Franz Kafka's novel "Amerika".
15 February 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.
24 April 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.
05 June 1983
A young man wakes up one day transformed into a giant insect.
13 November 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 into the dark world of Josef K and created a modern dance production depicting the world of the protagonist and his hopeless struggle with a cold and heartless modern society.
01 June 2015
This short follows Gregor Samsa from Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis". It is set in the modern world and shows the events leading up to Kafka's metamorphosis.
01 June 2007
Pedro is a young man, carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders, but one day, he wakes up feeling different.
23 March 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.
16 June 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 ordered society by changing the desperate conclusion into a happy end.
01 February 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 learn to rely upon themselves.
01 January 1988
Based on a short story by Franz Kafka, Masloboyshchikov’s debut film is a parable about the relationship between faith and salvation.
08 March 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.
13 December 2015
Based on Franz Kafka's The Castle. A certain K. appears in a snow-covered godforsaken village as if out of nowhere.
01 January 1953
Adaptation of a Kafka short story, believed lost for more than 60 years.
01 January 2004
A young man's family has trouble adjusting to his sudden transformation into a giant bug.
21 May 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.
12 May 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.
12 September 1986
Based on Franz Kafka's famous novel, director Jaakko Pakkasvirta created this interpretation of the woebegone Josef K.
25 August 1962
Arrested for an unnamed crime, Josef K. is trapped in a surreal bureaucratic maze where justice is unknowable and guilt is assumed.
05 August 2011
A Kafka dialogue is read by actors in Straub's own apartment in Paris.
31 August 2012
Gregor Samsa, a traveling salesman, wakes up in his bed to find himself transformed into a large insect.
30 August 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.
26 December 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.
18 June 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.
06 September 1997
When land surveyor K arrives at a small village that houses a castle, local authorities refuse to allow him to enter.
31 December 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.
27 February 2016
A wordless man stages an unexplained hunger strike and the people surrounding him exploit his silence to further their own cause.
03 February 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.
20 March 2026
When Gregório, a modest sales representative, mysteriously transforms into an insect, his social relationships and ties to the world begin to disintegrate.
21 February 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.
01 August 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.
12 August 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.
15 April 2016
One morning, after a night of anguish, a symptom of an unconscious revolt, a man wakes up transformed.
27 February 1996
On the comic tragedy of loneliness, based on the short story "Blumfeld, an elderly bachelor" by Franz Kafka.
04 October 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.
08 March 1994
The mice people live in an enormous theatre, expectantly awaiting the ambiguous show by Josefina.
19 January 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 problems.
20 December 2013
A fragmented view of contemporary Spain, drawing conclusions about the persistence of the human condition, strangeness, and the chaos within relationships.
10 May 2024
As Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning from unsettling dreams, he finds himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.
30 October 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.
01 June 1978
An animated adaptation of Franz Kafka’s acclaimed novella, “The Metamorphosis,” made from carving images into sand with glass.
10 May 2024
Frantic Assembly’s Metamorphosis retells Franz Kafka’s account of human struggle as a young salesman finds himself morphed into an insect.
30 September 2024
12-year-old Fabi has to finally prove himself as one of the family - by getting his first scar.
17 October 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.
01 August 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.
