Kafka

Following his breakthrough with SEX, LIES, AND VIDEOTAPE, Soderbergh's second feature film is dedicated to the character and work of Kafka, which merge here in an original way in a mixture of biopic, film noir and expressionist silent film aesthetics. In 1919, the Prague insurance clerk finds himself at the centre of a conspiracy interwoven with motifs and characters from his own work. ‘Soderbergh's collage of history, real fiction and Kafka's personalities serves to create a stage for this crime thriller that has hardly ever been more artificial. The wonder of this whimsical film is that it seems like a continuation of Kafka's visions [...], also because Kafka, unlike K., really gets into the castle.’ (Ulrich Greiner) (Florian Widegger)