Release Date

27 Nov, 1991

Runtime

00:00: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

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.

Original Title

Labyrint

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Actors

Maximilian Schell

Christopher Chaplin

Christian Thuri

Miloš Kopecký

Vlastimil Brodský

Antonia Miklíková

Daniel Margolius

Milan Šimáček

Ludvík Pozník

Oto Ševčík

Viktor Feuerlicht

Ladislav Blum

Karel Berman

Jiří Krejčík

Jana Dolanská

Vida Neuwirthová

Klára Jirsáková

Dita Bochnickova

Martin Huba

Jiří Adamíra

Ondřej Vetchý

Crew

Jaromil Jireš

Ivan Vojnár

Karel Dirka

Alois Fišárek