The Karlovy Range Worldwide Movie Competition has introduced its first wave of program particulars for its upcoming 58th version, which is about to happen from June 28 by July 6, 2024. The Czech pageant, broadly thought-about to be probably the most prestigious movie pageant in Japanese Europe, is about to honor one of many nation’s most well-known writers with a brand new retrospective titled “Franz Kafka and the Cinema.”
The sequence is about to function screenings of a variety of movies impressed by the Czech novelist, who famously wove themes of alienation and existential angst into cryptic novels that always flirted with surrealism. Some movies, like Orson Welles’ “The Trial” are direct diversifications of Kafka’s writings; however the sequence additionally consists of motion pictures about Kafka’s life, and movies like Martin Scorsese’s “After Hours” that had been influenced by Kafka’s concepts.
“For many years, Kafka’s oeuvre has functioned as a unbroken provocation to filmmakers,“ KVIFF inventive director Karel Och and advisor Lorenzo Esposito, co-curators of this system, mentioned in an announcement. “It’s as if he had been slyly difficult them to aim to seize as authentically and intensely as attainable the elusive nature of his formulations, of his narratives, of the realities he has crafted and the sentiments of apprehension he elicits, but additionally of the comedian conditions he has created.”
Along with the Kafka retrospective, the pageant will embody a tribute to prolific casting director Francine Maisler and honor actor Ivan Trojan with the annual Competition President’s award.
Maintain studying for a listing of Kafka-inspired movies set to display on the 58th annual Karlovy Range Worldwide Movie Competition.
“The Trial” (dir. Orson Welles, France/Italy/West Germany 1962, 116 min.)
“Joseph Kilian” (Postava ok podpírání, dir. Pavel Juráček, Czechoslovakia 1963, 38 min.)
“The Cash Order“ (Mandabi, dir. Ousmane Sembene, Senegal/France 1968, 105 min.)
“The Citadel” (Das Schloß, dir. Rudolf Noelte, West Germany 1968, 88 min.)
“The Viewers” (L’Udienza, dir. Marco Ferreri, Italy/France 1971, 112 min.)
“Metamorphosis” (Die Verwandlung, dir. Jan Němec, West Germany 1975, 55 min.)
“The Tenant” (Le Locataire, dir. Roman Polanski, France 1976, 126 min.)
“After Hours” (dir. Martin Scorsese, USA 1985, 97 min.)
“Fellini’s Intervista” (Intervista, dir. Federico Fellini, Italy 1987, 105 min.)
“Tetsuo” (dir. Shin’ya Tsukamoto, Japan 1989, 67 min.)
“Kafka” (dir. Steven Soderbergh, USA/France 1991, 98 min.)
“Kafka“ (dir. Zbigniew Rybczyński, France 1992, 52 min.)
“Amerika” (dir. Vladimir Michálek, Czech Republic 1994, 90 min.)
“Franz Kafka’s a Nation Physician” (Kafka Inaka Isha, dir. Koji Yamamura, Japan 2007, 21 min.)
“Artist of Fasting” (Danjiki geinin, dir. Masao Adachi, Japonsko 2016, 104 min.)
“Mr. Kneff” (dir. Steven Soderbergh, USA 2021, 78 min.)
“The Tomb of Kafka” (Le Tombeau de Kafka, dir. Jean-Claude Rousseau, France 2022, 14 min.)