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Labyrinth

Labyrinth

1991

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.

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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.

Behind it

Jaromil JirešJaromil JirešDirectorIvan VojnárCinematography

Cast

Maximilian SchellMaximilian SchellThe Filmmaker
Christopher ChaplinFranz Kafka
Christian ThuriDavid Hilsner
Miloš KopeckýMiloš KopeckýRabbi Löw
Vlastimil BrodskýVlastimil BrodskýLöbl
Antonia MiklíkováEsther
Daniel MargoliusDaniel MargoliusSimon
Milan ŠimáčekMilan Šimáček
Ludvík Pozník
Oto ŠevčíkOto ŠevčíkSS man Günther
Viktor Feuerlicht
Ladislav Blum
Karel Berman
Jiří KrejčíkJiří KrejčíkPublic prosecutor
Jana DolanskáJana DolanskáMilena Jesenska
Vida NeuwirthováVida NeuwirthováGrete Bloch
Klára JirsákováFelice Bauer
Dita BochnickovaDora Diamant

Director

Jaromil Jireš

Release date

27 Nov 1991

Studio

Art Oko Film

Language

Czech

Countries

Czechoslovakia,Germany

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