As biopic subjects go, Franz Kafka is resistant to standard-issue treatment on a number of levels - beginning with the fact that his life, short and largely uncelebrated in its time, wasn't especially ...

Newcomer Idan Weiss stars as the iconic Czech writer in the new biopic from the director of 'Green Border' and 'In Darkness' that premiered at Toronto. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief Her ...

Premiering at TIFF, the 'Green Border' director's non-chronological feature views the Czech-German-Jewish writer's life as if through a crystal prism. By Leslie Felperin Contributing Film Critic Given ...

Born in Prague in 1883, Franz Kafka grew up to be one of the world's most well known German-language authors, even to this day. He is famous for his works that fuse elements such as realism and the ...

Agnieszka Holland, the director of Oscar nominated films like “Angry Harvest,” “Europa Europa” and “In Darkness,” has completed post on her latest film, Franz Kafka biopic “Franz,” which will make its ...

“Franz is a writer who doesn’t like to talk,” says Franz Kafka’s agent in this playful and oddly endearing biopic of the enigmatic Czech author, who died in 1924 aged just 40. Kafka’s output was slim ...

Celebrated Jewish writer Franz Kafka may have written his most famous works, including the novella “The Metamorphosis,” in German, his mother tongue. But Kafka was proficient in other languages, too, ...

When Franz Kafka wrote his first novel between 1911 and 1914, it was a fantasy of what it would be like to disappear in a ...

Swirling events from across the Czech writer's life into a prismatic study of his creative frustration and uncontrolled legacy, this ambitious film makes a show of shunning convention but has nothing ...

Agnieszka Holland has never shied away from difficult subjects. The Polish filmmaker, a three-time Oscar nominee (Angry Harvest, Europa Europa, In Darkness) and winner of Venice's jury prize for Green ...