Franz

Director: Agnieszka Holland
Script: Marek Epstein, Agnieszka Holland
Cinematography: Tomasz Naumiuk
Editing: Pavel Hrdlička
Music: Maria Komasa-Łazarkiewicz, Antoni Komasa-Łazarkiewicz
Producers: Agnieszka Holland, Marcin Wierzchosławski, Šárka Cimbalová, Alicja Jagodzińska-Kałkus,
Cast: Idan Weiss, Jenovéfa Boková, Peter Kurth, Katharina Stark, Ivan Trojan, Josef Trojan, Sandra Korzeniak, Carol Schuler, Jan Budař, Emma Smetana, Sebastian Schwarz, Aaron Friesz, Gesa Schermuly, Václav Jiráček, Karel Dobrý, Vladimír Javorský, Stanislav Majer, Anita Krausová, Michal Isteník, Milan Šteindler

Czech Republic, Germany, Poland 2025
127′

The long-awaited international production directed by the award-winning Agnieszka Holland (Green Border, In Darkness) is not only a portrait of one of the literary icons of the 20th century, who continues to inspire artists and fascinate new generations. It is also the story of a sensitive man whose fears and dilemmas deeply resonate with today’s young audiences.

The director follows in the footsteps of her protagonist, weaving the most crucial moments of his life into an extraordinary mosaic. Franz Kafka – a young man trapped in the nightmare of bureaucratic everyday life, echoing today’s corporate reality. A vegetarian by choice – long before it became common. The son of a despotic father, entangled in fragile relationships with women. Immersed in an existential crisis well before loneliness became a side effect of social media. Misunderstood and full of anxieties, he escaped into a world of irony, absurdity, and imagination, creating works that made him one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.