Agnieszka Holland shares her unique view of Kafka in ‘Franz’

Guillermo del Toro is not the only celebrated international film film that managed to implement the passion project this year. Where was Del Toro “Frankenstein” Agnieszka It has a “Franz”, in which the Polish Page Director knocks a literary hero, she discovered as a teenager, resulting in an unconventional biopic, which is more than a portrait.

“Kafka is part of my life from my life, for the first time I read his short stories, and then” Europe Europa “remembers the popular Czech writer as a man of many paradoxes.” He was very open, but at the same time inaccessible. I had the impression that I understood him, that somehow as part of my family was somehow had my family. I even had a fantasy to answer for him. ”

According to the Netherlands, Kafka was one of the reasons she went to Prague to study. “It was to follow his way, to be in the city,” she says. At that time, Czech capital continued to hold the traces of Kafkina Ere; Now, the threshold serves almost as a sanctuary to the author, with the official museum and several monuments around the city, moving from the icon to the Kiège in its view. “He became a tourist attraction and one of the main sources of income for souvenir shops. And at some point I started to be a little angry with that.”

In 1981, a decade after the FMU graduation (a famous film school launched by the Czech new wave legends Miloš formal and Jiri Menzel), the Netherlands has adjusted the Kafki “trial” as Teleplay for Polish TV. “It was very instructive for me intellectual work,” she says. “I thought I touched something necessary in the trial,” I didn’t find in other adaptations. ”

The more Netherlands reads about Kafci and looked at his writing (including abundant diaries and letters he left), it was more convinced that the world was misinterpreting him. “I realized it wasn’t as mood and dark, that she was very sharp, and there are a lot of humor,” she explains. The Netherlands wanted to tell her story, but until she returned to Prague to make two films, “burning bush” and “Charlatan”, to introduce himself, to present the opportunity.

“I was sure it couldn’t be a traditional linear biop,” she says. “Never finished any of his novels, or think that we have captured him. The script, as well as the family problems (such as speech, idealistic exchange with street beggar), everything was built around a critical two-day receptions when the Kafka was Kafka.

“I’m not a scientist. I didn’t mean to learn people,” Holland says. “We had the impression that we practically worked a different film and stylistic, who kind of reflects. Of course, it was risky, you never know if it would be talked about as a story you want to follow.”

The film arrives a year after a hundred-year-old celebration of the author, allowing several projects to take advantage of Kafkina Death, 1924. year at the age of 40, but the Netherlands, which is among the most famous film citers, no choice. Her previous film, “Green border” deals near Kafka-Eskue crisis at the border in Poland-Belarus, where no party takes responsibility for refugees who cross there.

“I see my vocation as a movie creator not only to tell stories that are timeless; I am reacted to the actuality at a time,” he may still change this reality, “Netherlands said, who was upset in his country, who was in some way, who was in some way.

“See the same process in other European countries and the United States … how easy it is to invent or name a new Capricorn (that) began massive hatred, which will lead to legalized violence.” So the Netherlands is the priority of the “Green Border”.

“It was a work of some urgency, which was impossible to rent for later because the clock was typed and so we put” Kafk “aside for a year,” she says. “And now I think it was too late. Of course I didn’t stop anything to stop. I just gave some reason to think and feel.”

The Netherlands, who accused the highest bodies (Minister of Justice compared to Goebbels and Stalin) to make that film, the cinema is a medium for speaking and thinking about the truth

“I made these films about the Holocaust, not just to honor the victims or remind you to the historical facts, but also send some kind of warning about what humanity is capable of doing,” she says. “From my movie” Europe, Europe “, I think the vaccination of the Holocaust is evaporated, slowly but surely, what made people say” never to accept the same things that the Germans made in the middle of the 30s as a final solution. “

Kafka died young, although so much of his Jewish relatives became the victims of the Holocaust. “I was pretty sure she would never survive that. He wasn’t surviving. He wasn’t a fighter,” Holland says. “He was very strong in researching his vocation to write, but at the same time he was very fragile at many levels.”

The Netherlands spent almost a decade living in Los Angeles, but it was the task of directing episodes of “wire” and “tremet” in reality Baltimore and New Orleans after she became an opportunity with Producer Nina Kotroff).

“Working on these two series has been riched by many – my knowledge of American life and tragic problems America,” Netherlands said, who missed professors and intellectuals in the United States. “I remember discussing with them when Donald Trump was the first in his income, and I watched what he was saying, and I told them,” He will win. “

“But I’m not a politician,” he’s quick to clarify. “I think it’s my duty – or maybe” duty “to talk about things that people don’t want to hear them, and they raised them in defense in defense 10 years ago, and now they haven’t been 10 years ago.”