Kafka

Season 1

2024 · 6 episodes · 4h 28m in all · 6.8/10

Episodes

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   1. Max

   26 Mar 2024 · 42 min · 6.7/10

   Max Brod is a well-connected writer and editor who saves his close friend's work from oblivion by breaking his promise to burn all unpublished papers after Franz's death; Max carries them to safety on the last train out of Prague at the onset of WW2.

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   2. Felice

   26 Mar 2024 · 48 min · 6.7/10

   Kafka has a turbulent relationship with his on and off fiancée Felice Bauer; after getting to know each other mainly through letters, their engagement is broken off, renewed, only to be broken off again.

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   3. Family

   26 Mar 2024 · 45 min · 7.3/10

   Kafka's father --to whom Franz will address a merciless indictment of over 100 pages, never sent in his lifetime but posthumously published as "Letter to the Father"-- is strict and domineering.

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   4. Bureau

   27 Mar 2024 · 44 min · 6.7/10

   Kafka has an ambiguous relationship with his workplace; a brilliant insurance lawyer, Kafka is highly respected by his colleagues who, at the height of WW1, save his life by preventing him from enlisting.

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   5. Milena

   27 Mar 2024 · 43 min · 7.0/10

   Kafka has a brief but intense relationship with the charismatic writer Milena Jesenská, who translated his work from German to Czech; he revealed his most intimate self to her and entrusted her with the safekeeping of his diaries.

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   6. Dora

   27 Mar 2024 · 46 min · 6.7/10

   Kafka has a last great love, Dora Dymant, whom he meets in a Baltic sea resort which his imagination turns into the mythical village of his final novel "The Castle"; after moving in together to a flat in Berlin, Dora cares for Kafka until the end.