Kafka's bug nightmare gets the French TV treatment—existential dread, but make it fashion.
Practical Effects
Giant insect suit that walks the line between tragic and deeply silly.
Acting
Madeleine Robinson's exhausted matriarch—she's DONE.
Director
Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pierre Étaix, who plays the lodger, was a legendary French clown and filmmaker—his casting adds cruel irony to the 'entertaining the bug' scenes.
Made for Antenne 2 in 1983, this adaptation arrived during France's post-68 identity crisis—Gregor's uselessness hit different in an era of mass unemployment.
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