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Icons, 2025

Franz

프란츠 카프카

Director Agnieszka HOLLAND

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An eminent master nearing his eighties has taken on the challenge of creating a biographical film about a writer whose name everyone knows. This was an adventurous undertaking by all accounts, with the production team calling it, "the most ambitious project yet." Agnieszka Holland, long fascinated by Kafka, began adapting his life for film after decades, aiming to diverge from conventional interpretations and established images. In other words, while it′s a film about Kafka, Franz is less about adhering to the dictionary definition of ‘Kafkaesque’ and more about the director′s culmination of images she′s explored for a long time. The mosaic of Kafka’s brief life even ventures into rather specialized areas. It doesn′t miss the relationships with the figures who greatly influenced him—family, lovers, and friends—while notably attempting to connect Kafka with the present time. Stripping away his somber, mysterious facade, the revived Kafka sometimes even smiles, which is unexpected.

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Screenings2

Tue, 09/23

11:3013:37

Busan Cinema Center Cinema 1

406KE, Korean subtitles + English subtitles or English dialogue

Thu, 09/25

09:3011:37

Busan Cinema Center Cinema 1

558KE, Korean subtitles + English subtitles or English dialogue

Film details

Director: Agnieszka HOLLAND
Country/Region: Czechia, Germany, Poland
Year: 2025
Length: 127min
Section: Icons
Edition: Busan International Film Festival 2025, No. 30
Original language: Czech
Format: DCP, Color
Selection: Official selection
Elsewhere: Festival page Letterboxd IMDb Wikidata TMDB Douban

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Agnieszka HOLLAND

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Director: Agnieszka HOLLAND
Producer: Šárka CIMBALOVÁ, Agnieszka HOLLAND
Cast: Idan WEISS, Peter KURTH, Jenovéfa BOKOVÁ, Ivan TROJAN, Sandra KORZENIAK, Katharina STARK, Sebastian SCHWARZ, Aaron FRIESZ, Carol SCHULER, Gesa SCHERMULY
Screenplay: Marek EPSTEIN
Cinematography: Tomasz NAUMIUK
Editing: Pavel HRDLIČKA
Sound: Marek HART
Music: Mary KOMASA, Antoni KOMASA ŁAZARKIEWICZ
Production company: Marlene Film Production
World sales: Films Boutique

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