Name: Kafka
Released: 2024-03-24T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Joel Basman, David Kross, Liv Lisa Fries

Kafka

TV Show · Drama · Biography

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.

2024 · 42m

Starring Joel Basman, David Kross, Liv Lisa Fries

Director David Schalko

EPISODE 1

Episode 1

Franz's friend, writer Max Brod, hopes to help Franz achieve fame, but Franz doesn't think much of Max's writing and isn't grateful for his help.

42 min
EPISODE 2

Episode 2

Although he hardly knows her, Franz gets engaged to Felice Bauer after inundating her with letters. They hope their tenuous relationship will work out.

45 min
EPISODE 3

Family

Domineering Herman Kafka's fractious relationship with his son has stimulating effects on Franz's writing, especially after Franz's friend, Yitzhak Löwy, has a confrontation with Herman.

45 min
EPISODE 4

Bureau

While expressing the horrors of bureaucracy in his writing, Franz becomes a particularly successful insurance litigator.

44 min
EPISODE 5

Episode 5

Writer Milena Jesenská recognises Franz's genius in a way that only Max Brod has done so far. A passionate attachment could develop, if Franz doesn't get in the way.

43 min
EPISODE 6

Episode 6

Riddled with tuberculosis, Franz meets his last great love, Dora Diamant, at a spa town. While his physical condition deteriorates, his creative vision flies.

45 min