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Overview

User Rating:
6.9/10   4,041 votes
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Director:

Steven Soderbergh

Writer (WGA):

Lem Dobbs (written by)

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Release Date:

15 November 1991 (USA) more

Genre:

Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller more

Plot:

Kafka, an insurance worker gets embroiled in an underground group after a co-worker is murdered. The... more | add synopsis

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination more

NewsDesk:
(6 articles)

Review: Did You Ever See... Erin Brockovich?
 (From HeyUGuys. 18 September 2009, 2:08 PM, PDT)

Soderbergh's next a Knockout
 (From Corona's Coming Attractions. 8 September 2009, 12:39 AM, PDT)

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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

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
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Additional Details

Also Known As:

Kafka (France)
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Runtime:

98 min | Germany:92 min (TV version)

Country:

France | USA

Language:

English

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR


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Quotes:

Doctor Murnau: You despise someone like me - because you despise the modern. But you are at the very forefront of what is modern. You write about it, you document it... Unlike you, though, I have chosen to embrace it. more

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Referenced in The Blood Pact: The Making of 'Blade II' (2002) (V) more


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About an answer, 24 December 2006
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Author: Vincentiu from Romania

A good movie about a good man. A game with life's pieces and work's pieces, a story about a ghost. Kafka like character, more heroic, more strange and free. But who is Franz Kafka in this new space? A friend, a searcher, a victim? The film is only a view of a small world. Kafka is created like symbol and mark of a solitude who live in everybody. Is he the real "Castle"'s author? No! The problem is that: we seen the image of a film-maker about a great writer. Not his biography, not elements of his life, not a real life. Maybe, only a story of fear and sense. "Life is dream" is an old sign of normality. But for many people the dream is only way to believe that they lives. For me, Franz Kafka is the most important writer of the XXth century. Auschwitz, the Gulag, Pol Pot's crimes or September 11 are the pieces of his writings. The importance of this film is to create a answer at reality. The each people's reality. Is a good/ bad answer? Who cares?

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