Program: Kafka and Cinema
The film depicts the last and happiest stage of Franz Kafka's life. He is a writer of great talent, but with a complicated manner, self-doubt, who has not yet experienced closeness and has not learned to live independently. in 1923 while being treated for tuberculosis by the Baltic Sea, he falls in love with Dora Diamant. The couple settles in Berlin, but as Franz's health continues to deteriorate, they leave for an Austrian sanatorium. Just a year later, Franz dies, but the time they spend together changes Dora's life forever.
Georg Maas writes and directs feature and documentary films, as well as creates music videos and video installations. His film Two Lives (2013) was nominated for Best International Film at the Academy Awards and won prizes at the German National Awards.
Judith Kaufman - a famous German cinematographer and screenwriter who worked on such films as "Corsage" (2023), "Teacher's Room" (2023).