Jan 01, 1993
23 min
Full-HD

Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life (1993)

Franz Kafka is working on his Metamorphosis, but he's suffering from writer's block; he can't get off on the right track. While trying to decide what Gregor Samsa is going to wake up as, he is constantly interrupted by door-to-door salesmen, young women, and his own inexplicable hallucinations.

Category

Comedy Fantasy

Country

United Kingdom

Companies

The Scottish Film Production Fund BBC Conundrum Films

Richard E. Grant

Franz Kafka

Elaine Collins

Miss Cicely

Crispin Letts

Gregor Samsa

Phyllis Logan

Frau Bunofsky

Ken Stott

Woland the Knifeman

Julie Cox

Party Girl

Jessie Doyle

Party Girl

Sammy Sheldon

Party Girl

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