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Qui était Kafka? (2007)

aka: Who was Kafka?

Director

Richard Dindo

Subject

Literature

Distribution

DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 96 minutes), 14.94 Euros

Documentarian Richard Dindo presents an impressionistic view of the life of Franz Kafka, consisting of actors presenting the author’s personal writings as if they were documentary interviews, set against a...

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Trial, The (1962) (1962 Video)

aka: ProcÈs, Le

Director

Orson Welles

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 113 minutes), £12.99

Adaptation by Orson Welles of Franz Kafka’s existentialist novel in which an ordinary man awakes one day to find a police inspector at the foot of his bed. Oblivious to his crime he is dragged into his own...

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Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924) (Video)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 35 minutes), £13.74

Franz Kafka was born in Prague, still under the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was well educated and from an early age he determined to become a writer. He worked in an insurance company and in his ample free...

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Trial, The (2005)

Director

Steven Berkoff

Subject

Drama; Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £18.99

Recorded live in Tokyo and based on the production shown at the National Theatre in 1991, ‘The Trial’ is Steven Berkoff’s exploration of the kafkaesque universe using the metaphore of the labyrinth.

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Case for a Rookie Hangman (1969)

Director

Pavel Juracek

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (BR Region free, 107 minutes), £19.99

Lost on a country road, a man finds himself trapped in a nightmare world that mirrors Communist-era Czechoslovakia. A free-form and darkly surreal adaptation of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, which...

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Out on a Limb: The Films of Caroline Leaf (1999 Video)

Director

Caroline Leaf

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 87 min., 1999 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

A compilation of films by American animator Caroline Leaf. 1: (1974, 8 min). Based on an Inuit story, illustrates the folly of marrying a creature who is not of one’s own kind. Leaf worked with Inuit crew...

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Animation Classics (1993 Video)

Director

Cordell Barker; Richard Condie; Evelyn Lambart; Caroline Leaf; Eunice Macaulay; Norman McLaren; Ishu Patel; John Weldon

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 65 min., 2001 sale: £12.99 (inc. VAT +p&p)

A compilation of seven short animated films from the National Film Board of Canada.

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