6.546 minSeason 1 • Episode 6
LatestKafka has a last great love, Dora Dymant, whom he meets in a Baltic sea resort which his imagination turns into the mythical village of his final novel "The Castle"; after moving in together to a flat in Berlin, Dora cares for Kafka until the end.
The story of Franz Kafka's life from different perspectives. Presenting his difficult relationship with his domineering father Hermann, his deep friendship with Max Brod and his various love affairs.
Acting
Joel Basman's Kafka: all jittery hands and eyes that beg to be seen.
Production
Prague as psychological prison — claustrophobic architecture does the heavy lifting.
Writing
Reiner Stach adapts his own biography; obsessive detail or self-indulgence? Both.
Creator
Reiner Stach
Joel Basman
Franz Kafka
David Kross
Max Brod
Maresi Riegner
Ottla Kafka
Nicholas Ofczarek
Hermann Kafka
Lia von Blarer
Felice Bauer
Liv Lisa Fries
Milena Jesenská
Tamara Romera Ginés
Dora Dymant
Robert Stadlober
Felix Weltsch
Verena Altenberger
Robert Musil
Judith Altenberger
Erna Bauer
Anne Bennent
Anna Bauer
Charly Hübner
Rowohlt
Lars Eidinger
Rainer Maria Rilke
Katharina Thalbach
Vermieterin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
David Kross (Brod) previously played young Michael Berg in The Reader — now he's the keeper of another man's shameful secrets.
Stach spent twenty years on his three-volume Kafka biography; this series compresses that obsession into six hours of beautiful suffering.
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