Franz Kafka

While working on a television movie project about Franz Kafka, German actor Hanns Zischler discovered a series of passionate writings in Kafka's journals about his own moviegoing. Zischler, who also wrote a book of the same title, spent the next twenty-five years combing through archives and libraries to locate many of the now-extinct films cited by Kafka in his journals. The result is a witty conjecture on the Czech writer's fascination with film and Zischler's fascination with Kafka.

Jói, an innocent, simple shopkeeper gets accused of a horrific, unspecified crime by a judge, a cop, a prison officer and two mysterious men and must fight for his right to live.

A man starves himself for the entertainment of others.

Pedro is a young man, carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders, but one day, he wakes up feeling different.

Based upon a short story (of the same name) by Franz Kafka, My Neighbor deals with anxiety and suspicion. This film was produced in conjunction with the Experimental Narrative Filmmaking class at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee during the spring of 2002.

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. The film follows Georg Bendemann, a young merchant living 1900s Prague, who is struggling to maintain balance in an ever changing world. As his situation deteriorates due to complicated familial relationships, we are compelled to question the very nature of what we are seeing.

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.

In an ominous Lisbon courtyard where the last executioner of the kingdom once lived, an accident is waiting to happen. After a patient game of who's observing who, four characters will collide with dire consequences. Inspired by the novel The Damned Yard by Nobel Prize-winning Bosnian writer Ivo Andrić, this is a masterclass in slow cinema, a pure 16mm cinematic pleasure by André Gil Mata.

An Imperial Message is a 1975 Hungarian experimental film directed by László Najmányi. The 'story' was based on Franz Kafka's short story Eine kaiserliche Botschaft.

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.

A series of 15 prints inspired by "A Report for an Academy" by Franz Kafka, provokes this look at the life of the artist and social activist Francisco Toledo.

An adaptation of Franz Kafka's "The Trial"

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Frantic Assembly’s Metamorphosis retells Franz Kafka’s account of human struggle as a young salesman finds himself morphed into an insect. Captured live at Lyric Hammersmith Theatre in 2024, this adaptation by poet Lemn Sissay OBE uses powerful lyricism, sound, and physicality to bring this tale of extraordinary transformation to life.

A soldier is about to be executed because of his disobedience. The execution will be carried out by an ancient machine which engraves a sentence (the committed crime) on a man's skin. What would happen if silent-film fan Franz Kafka were to ask FW Murnau to make a movie of his short story In the Penal Colony?

An ape named Rotpeter, who has learned to behave like a human, presents to an academy the story of how he effected his transformation.