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Kafka

Kafka

2024 - 2024

Max

26th March 2024
Episode 1
Max Brod is a well-connected writer and editor who saves his close friend's work from oblivion by breaking his promise to burn all unpublished papers after Franz's death; Max carries them to safety on the last train out of Prague at the onset of WW2.

Felice

26th March 2024
Episode 2
Kafka has a turbulent relationship with his on and off fiancée Felice Bauer; after getting to know each other mainly through letters, their engagement is broken off, renewed, only to be broken off again.

Family

26th March 2024
Episode 3
Kafka's father --to whom Franz will address a merciless indictment of over 100 pages, never sent in his lifetime but posthumously published as "Letter to the Father"-- is strict and domineering.

Bureau

27th March 2024
Episode 4
Kafka has an ambiguous relationship with his workplace; a brilliant insurance lawyer, Kafka is highly respected by his colleagues who, at the height of WW1, save his life by preventing him from enlisting.

Milena

27th March 2024
Episode 5
Kafka has a brief but intense relationship with the charismatic writer Milena Jesenská, who translated his work from German to Czech; he revealed his most intimate self to her and entrusted her with the safekeeping of his diaries.

Dora

27th March 2024
Episode 6
Kafka has a last great love, Dora Dymant, whom he meets in a Baltic sea resort which his imagination turns into the mythical village of his final novel "The Castle"; after moving in together to a flat in Berlin, Dora cares for Kafka until the end.
Top Cast
Director
David Schalko
Writer
Daniel Kehlmann
Drama

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.

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Full Cast
Joel Basman Image

Joel Basman

Franz Kafka

David Kross Image

David Kross

Max Brod

Maresi Riegner Image

Maresi Riegner

Ottla Kafka

Nicholas Ofczarek Image

Nicholas Ofczarek

Hermann Kafka

Lia von Blarer Image

Lia von Blarer

Felice Bauer

Liv Lisa Fries Image

Liv Lisa Fries

Milena Jesenská

Tamara Romera Ginés Image

Tamara Romera Ginés

Dora Dymant

Robert Stadlober Image

Robert Stadlober

Felix Weltsch

Verena Altenberger Image

Verena Altenberger

Robert Musil

Judith Altenberger Image

Judith Altenberger

Erna Bauer

Konstantin Frank Image

Konstantin Frank

Jizchak Löwy

Anne Bennent Image

Anne Bennent

Anna Bauer

Charly Hübner Image

Charly Hübner

Rowohlt

Lars Eidinger Image

Lars Eidinger

Rainer Maria Rilke

Katharina Thalbach Image

Katharina Thalbach

Vermieterin

Marie-Lou Sellem Image

Marie-Lou Sellem

Julie Kafka

Christian Friedel Image

Christian Friedel

Franz Werfel

Michael Maertens Image

Michael Maertens

Erzähler

Daniel Kehlmann Image

Daniel Kehlmann

Arthur Schnitzler

Jan Bülow Image

Jan Bülow

Karl Hermann

Laurence Rupp Image

Laurence Rupp

Kurt Wolff

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Marie-Luise Stockinger

Grete Bloch

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Robert Palfrader

Pornograph Pachinger

Full Crew
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Daniel Kehlmann

Writer

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David Schalko

Director

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Magdalena Ly

Second Assistant Director

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Caspar Thiel

Third Assistant Director

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David Schalko

Producer

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Kyrre Kvam

Music

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Livia Pernhaupt

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Bertram Knappitsch

Boom Operator

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Yannic Proeger

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Johannes Riemann

Digital Compositor

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John Lueftner

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Simone Pischl

Boom Operator

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Reiner Stach

Original Story

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Andreas Clemens

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Johannes Riemann

Concept Artist

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Maurice Miller

Visual Effects Supervisor

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Sam Dopona

Makeup Designer

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Max Bauer

Foley Artist

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Lena Petsch

Post-Production Manager

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Florian Engelhardt

First Assistant Director

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Odo Grötschnig

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Sophie Wasserburger

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Konrad Sulzmann

Second Assistant Director

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David Schalko

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Kathrin Monthaler

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Karina Ressler

Editor

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Florian Erben

Lighting Technician

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Fatima Merten

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Matthias Hofer

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Katharina Theissen

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David Notheis

Assistant Property Master

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Christian Pipelka

Grip

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Tom Kratz

Set Decoration

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Julian Stampfer

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Felix Pacher

Second Assistant Camera

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Gerhard Riesenhuber

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Lea Haselrieder

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Lisa Waygand

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Johannes Rass

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Alexander Preisch

Key Grip

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Irina Grebien

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Nino Volpe

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Christine Akbaba

Makeup Artist

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Martin Fabini

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Margit Salzinger

Assistant Costume Designer

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Oskar Ott

Electrician

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Klaudia Kiczak

Art Direction

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Patricia Schömitz

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Stefan Simonovic

Video Assist Operator

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Katja Sembacher

Assistant Costume Designer

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Jan Wollenschläger

Assistant Editor

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Andreas Dollfuss

Grip

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Maximilian Obermair

Lighting Technician

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Kim Jerrett

Gaffer

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Gerhard Riesenhuber

Colorist

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Nils Sachse

Data Wrangler

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Sam Dopona

Key Makeup Artist

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Kordula Lingler

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George Rei

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Tabea Walla

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Martin Gschlacht

Director of Photography

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Gerhard Riesenhuber

Camera Operator

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Eva Roth

Casting Director

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Mara Helml

Costume Coordinator

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Lisa Faderl

Best Boy Electric

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Florian Paul

Electrician

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Lukas Kern

Electrician

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Florian Engelhardt

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Alfred Mayerhofer

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Heidi Fink

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Matthias Hofer

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Emmanuel Roitner

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Raoul Bruck

Additional Second Assistant Director

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Nikolaus Kantner

Third Assistant Director

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Peter Jaitz

Editor

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Benjamin Klein

Gaffer

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Lena Damm

Makeup Artist

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Ines Koller

Costumer

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Florian Eidenhammer

Lighting Technician

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Florian Paul

Electrician

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Kristin Barthold

Makeup Artist

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Aurora Hummer

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Angelika Cech

Second Assistant Director

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Roland Niko Venturas

Production Manager

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Nikolaus von Uthmann

Translator

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Louis Oellerer

Production Manager

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Wolfi Müller

Sound Editor

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Christian Krohn

Line Producer

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Odo Grötschnig

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Transportation Coordinator

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Alexander Siegl

Boom Operator

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Margit Berner

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Ines Stoderegger

Location Manager

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Daniel Kehlmann

Screenplay

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Harry Siebler

Special Effects Supervisor

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Sarah Kučera

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