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Award-winning director Agnieszka Holland is embarking on her most ambitious project to date, a biopic of the iconic 20th-century Czech writer Franz Kafka. Conceived as a kaleidoscopic mosaic, the film will follow the imprint Kafka left on the world from his birth in 19th-century Prague to his death in post-WW1 Vienna. FRANZ will give the audience a brand new perspective on the life of the man behind the literary giant.

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Siddhant Adlakha Observer Ambitious to a fault, Kafka biopic Franz is as much about the landmark Czech surrealist as it is about its own making, as a commercialized re-telling of a life cut tragically short. Rated: 3/4 Sep 23, 2025 Full Review Guy Lodge Variety For all this fevered darting and pointing, “Franz” doesn’t have much of a point of view, nor much of an angle on Kafka beyond a general pronouncement of his enduring significance. Sep 23, 2025 Full Review Leslie Felperin The Hollywood Reporter It will be newcomer Weiss’ intense, playful, sweet rendition of Kafka that people will remember this film for -- a portrait of a complicated man who lived mostly in his head but was capable of tenderness with friends and lovers. Sep 8, 2025 Full Review Nikki Baughan Screen International [Franz] at first appears rather overworked, but slowly coalesces into an intriguing -- if not entirely successful -- study of art and legacy. Sep 25, 2025 Full Review Damon Wise Deadline Hollywood Daily Franz marvels at the depth and strangeness of his intellect, which confounds his overbearing father who takes a dim view of his son’s “stupid writing.” Sep 25, 2025 Full Review Luis Martínez El Mundo (Spain) What Agnieszka Holland does isn't so much recounting Kafka's life as attempting to narrate the awkward existence of the Kafkaesque people we all already are. [Full review in Spanish] Rated: 3/5 Sep 22, 2025 Full Review Read all reviews

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Agnieszka Holland

Director

Idan Weiss

Franz Kafka

Peter Kurth

Actor

Jenovéfa Boková

Milena Jesenská

Sandra Korzeniak

Actor

Katharina Stark

Ottla Kafka
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Movie Info

Synopsis Award-winning director Agnieszka Holland is embarking on her most ambitious project to date, a biopic of the iconic 20th-century Czech writer Franz Kafka. Conceived as a kaleidoscopic mosaic, the film will follow the imprint Kafka left on the world from his birth in 19th-century Prague to his death in post-WW1 Vienna. FRANZ will give the audience a brand new perspective on the life of the man behind the literary giant.
Director
Agnieszka Holland
Screenwriter
Agnieszka Holland, Marek Epstein
Production Co
Telewizja Polska (TVP), Ceská Televize, Metro Films, Canal+ Polska, Czech Anglo Productions, Bac Films, Barrandov Studio, X-Filme Creative Pool
Genre
Drama, Biography
Original Language
Czech
Runtime
2h 16m