Reiner Stach
Director
Kafka (2024)
Season 1
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.
Released March 26, 2024
Episode 44 min
None+
Keywords: imdb.tv-mini-series, tmdb.biography, imdb.female-topless-nudity, imdb.female-nudity, mdblist.imdb-tv-mini-series
Watch Providers: Chai Flicks
Production Companies: Superfilm, ORF, ARD, MDR, RBB + 10 more, HR, Saarländischer Rundfunk, Radio Bremen, Filmstandort Austria (FISA), Fernsehfonds Austria, Film Fonds Wien, NDR, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Südwestrundfunk, Westdeutscher Rundfunk
Network: Das Erste
6.5
S1E1 - Max
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a well-connected writer and editor who saves his close friend's work from oblivion by breaking his promise to burn all unpublished papers after Franz's death; Max carries them to safety on the last train out of Prague at the onset of WW2.
March 26, 2024, midnight
6.5
S1E2 - Felice
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.
March 26, 2024, midnight
7.0
S1E3 - Family
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.
March 26, 2024, midnight
6.5
S1E4 - Bureau
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.
March 27, 2024, midnight
6.5
S1E5 - Milena
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.
March 27, 2024, midnight
6.5
S1E6 - Dora
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.
March 27, 2024, midnight
Network: Das Erste
Episode Runtime: 44 min.
Season Runtime: 268 min.
Released: March 26, 2024
Last Air Date: March 27, 2024, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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