The biopic is such a staid genre that any attempt at doing something unique with its form is cause for excitement, if not outright celebration. Franz is that sort of daring endeavor, investigating the ...

Poland’s Oscar Selection Committee has chosen Agnieszka Holland ’s Franz Kafka biopic “Franz” as the country’s candidate for ...

Agnieszka Holland has never shied away from difficult subjects. The Polish filmmaker, a three-time Oscar nominee (Angry Harvest, Europa Europa, In Darkness) and winner of Venice's jury prize for Green ...

"Benjamin says the ambiguity of Kafka’s prose make translating his work difficult in general. But translating Kafka’s diaries proved especially tricky...." Headshot portrait of Austrian writer Franz ...