Labyrinth
Labyrint
Film makes the creative process visible by letting its narrative flow in the mind of a foreign director who is researching a film about Franz Kafka in Prague. Based on the principle of dreams and free association, segments unfold that deal with the various points of view that Kafka's work, personality and fate offer. In the labyrinth of his mind, the fictional director projects himself into situations from the author's life, with Kafka himself as his guide. At the same time, he delves into the history of the persecution of the Jews and glimpses the monstrosity of the bureaucratic apparatus that Kafka anticipated but could not have foreseen the monstrous size and function it would grow to a few years after his death in the institutionalized genocide and overall machinery of Nazism.
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Cast
Miloš Kopecký
as Rabbi Löw
Vlastimil Brodský
as Löbl
Daniel Margolius
as Simon
Milan Šimáček
Martin Huba
as Max Brod
Ondřej Vetchý
as Franz Kafka (voice)
Jiří Krejčík
as Public prosecutor
Vida Neuwirthová
as Grete Bloch
Oto Ševčík
as SS man Günther
Jiří Adamíra
as The Filmmaker (voice)
Maximilian Schell
as The Filmmaker
