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Kafka, an insurance worker gets embroiled in an underground group after a co-worker is murdered. The... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
Insanity | Alternative Reality | Conspiracy | Expressionist | Human Experimentation moreAwards:
1 win & 1 nomination moreUser Comments:
A thing of warped beauty moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Jeremy Irons | ... | Kafka | |
| Theresa Russell | ... | Gabriela | |
| Joel Grey | ... | Burgel | |
| Ian Holm | ... | Doctor Murnau | |
| Jeroen Krabbé | ... | Bizzlebek | |
| Armin Mueller-Stahl | ... | Grubach | |
| Alec Guinness | ... | The Chief Clerk | |
| Brian Glover | ... | Castle Henchman | |
| Keith Allen | ... | Assistant Ludwig | |
| Simon McBurney | ... | Assistant Oscar | |
| Robert Flemyng | ... | The Keeper of the Files | |
| Matyelok Gibbs | ... | Concierge | |
| Ion Caramitru | ... | Solemn Anarchist | |
| Hilde Van Mieghem | ... | Female Anarchist | |
| Jan Nemejovsky | ... | Mustachioed Anarchist |
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98 min | Germany:92 min (TV version)Language:
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Argentina:13 | South Korea:15 | Finland:K-16 | Germany:16 | Sweden:15 | UK:15 | USA:PG-13MOVIEmeter: 
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Doctor Murnau: You despise someone like me - because you despise the modern. But you are at the very forefront of what is modern. You write about it, you document it... Unlike you, though, I have chosen to embrace it. moreFAQ
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This is a strange creature: for a start, the first half is in black and white, then from a certain point the whole thing continues in colour. But more importantly, the real-life character of the writer, Kafka, has been bound up in an adventure story that he could have penned himself! The effect is of a whimsical, noire cartoon through which our hero stumbles, lost, for most of the time. But it is his bemused, everyday-ness which is his best defence against the hidden powers which are organised against him. In a way, it is disappointing when Kafka's paranoia is proved to be justified... the warped journey to this point is more fun than the pay-off. But this is a brave and playful film, at once terrifying and hilarious. The scene where the hero clumsily fights with an evil minion across the surface of huge magnifying glass, beneath which is a twitching, bloody brain undergoing maniacal experiments, is particularly bizarre, horrible and funny at the same time. 8/10