Labyrinth

Labyrinth (1991)

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.

Director: Jaromil Jireš

Casts

	Maximilian Schell as The Filmmaker
	Christopher Chaplin as Franz Kafka
	Christian Thuri as David Hilsner
	Miloš Kopecký as Rabbi Löw
	Vlastimil Brodský as Löbl
	Antonia Miklíková as Esther
	Daniel Margolius as Simon
	Milan Šimáček as
	Ludvík Pozník as
	Oto Ševčík as SS man Günther
	Viktor Feuerlicht as
	Ladislav Blum as
	Karel Berman as
	Jiří Krejčík as Public prosecutor
	Jana Dolanská as Milena Jesenska
	Vida Neuwirthová as Grete Bloch
	Klára Jirsáková as Felice Bauer
	Dita Bochnickova as Dora Diamant
	Martin Huba as Max Brod
	Jiří Adamíra as The Filmmaker (voice)
	Ondřej Vetchý as Franz Kafka (voice)

Crew