Kafka (film, 1991)

See also: Kafka (homonymy)

Kafka is an American film of 1991 carried out by Steven Soderbergh. The film mixes elements of the biography of Kafka, interpreted by Jeremy Irons, with the universe of its novels. Its frameworks and the use of the black and white in certain scenes point out the atmosphere of the Cinéma expressionnist.

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Employed in an insurance company, Kafka carries out a double life of employee and writer. One evening, his/her best friend is made kill in at the very least disconcerting circumstances. Seeking to include/understand what occurred, it is brought to meet a clandestine anarchistic group fights about it against an organization who undertakes strange experiments…

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  • Shortly after its price gained with the Festival of Sundance in 1987 for Sex, lies and video , Soderbergh entrusted to the producer Barry Levinson, Mark Johnson of Baltimore Pictures, its interest for this scenario written by Lem Dobbs which enjoyed a certain fame in the medium underground, but which was systematically refused for lack of commercial potential. In 1989, following the fall of the Berlin Wall, Soderbergh gave up the project on which he worked, The Last Ship , which took as tallies the Cold war. It could be thus devoted to the turning of Kafka.
  • the commercial failure of film contributed to the loss of confidence of the producers whom Soderbergh in the middle of the Années 1990 knew.

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