The Karlovy Range Competition pays tribute to one of many Czech Republic’s most well-known sons with a retrospective of movie variations of the work of Franz Kafka from a few of the best names in cinema. To mark the centenary of Kafka’s loss of life, the pageant will display a collection of movies immediately tailored from, or impressed by, the literary grasp of angst.
The retrospective will embrace such classics as Orson Welles’s The Trial (1962), Martin Scorsese’s Kafkaesque New York dramedy After Hours (1985) and Federico Fellini’s Intervista; Steven Soderbergh’s Kafka (1991) and its 2021 re-edit Mr. Kneff — each starring Jeremy Irons as a set-upon insurance coverage man and author — alongside lesser-known variations, together with Jan Němec’s Metamorphosis, a German TV film model of Kafka’s well-known brief story. Different highlights embrace Ousmane Sembene’s Senegalese characteristic The Cash Order (1968) and Kôji Yamamura’s animated brief Franz Kafka’s a Nation Physician (2007).
“For many years, Kafka’s oeuvre has functioned as a seamless provocation to filmmakers,” mentioned Karlovy Range inventive director Karel Och and pageant marketing consultant Lorenzo Esposito, co-curators of the retrospective. “It’s as if he have been slyly difficult them to try to seize as authentically and intensely as doable the elusive nature of his formulations, of his narratives, of the realities he has crafted and the emotions of apprehension he elicits, but additionally of the comedian conditions he has created.”
The 58th Karlovy Range pageant, which runs June 28–July 6, will current acclaimed casting director Francine Maisler (Dune, Tree of Life, Birdman) — in 2021 The Hollywood Reporter‘s inaugural casting director of the yr — with a particular prize for her life’s work, and honor Czech actor Ivan Trojan (Charlatan, Burning Bush) with this yr’s president’s award for excellent contribution to Czech cinema.
Karlovy Range will unveil its full pageant lineup within the coming weeks.