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Kafka Goes to
the Movies
(1907-1921)

Contents: [Italian travelogues] (1907-1913), A Tram Ride Through Prague (1908), First International Competition for Airplanes in Brescia (1909), Nick Winter and the Theft of the Mona Lisa (1911), The White Slave Girl (1911), Theodor Körner (1912), Celebrating 300 Years of the Romanov Dynasty (1913), The Heart Breaker (1913), The Other (1913), Daddy-Long-Legs (1919), Táta Dlouhán (1919) [excerpt], and Return to Zion (1921).

This unusual collection gathers together films that author Franz Kafka wrote notes and thoughts on after having viewed them.

Edition Filmmuseum
2017 DVD edition

Kafka Goes to the Movies (1907-1921), black & white, 468 minutes total, not rated, including [Italian travelogues] (1907-1913), black & white, 20 minutes, not rated, A Tram Ride Through Prague (1908), black & white, 2 minutes, not rated, First International Competition for Airplanes in Brescia (1909), black & white, 13 minutes, not rated, Nick Winter and the Theft of the Mona Lisa (1911), black & white, 10 minutes, not rated, The White Slave Girl (1911), black & white, 55 minutes, not rated, Theodor Körner (1912), black & white, 41 minutes, not rated, Celebrating 300 Years of the Romanov Dynasty (1913), black & white, 16 minutes, not rated, The Heart Breaker (1913), black & white, 47 minutes, not rated, The Other (1913), black & white, 77 minutes, not rated, Daddy-Long-Legs (1919), black & white, 99 minutes, not rated, Táta Dlouhán (1919) [excerpt], black & white, 10 minutes, not rated, Return to Zion (1921), black & white, 78 minutes, not rated.

Edition Filmmuseum, 95, unknown UPC/EAN number.
Four single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 PAL DVD discs; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 576 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at ? Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 50 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; German, English, French, Russian, Italian, Czech and Hebrew language intertitles, optional German, English and French language subtitles; chapter stops; 28-page insert booklet; standard four-disc DVD keepcase; €39.95.
Release date: May 2017.
Country of origin: Germany

This PAL DVD edition has been mastered from archival film print materials.

The films are accompanied by music scores composed and performed by Richard Siedhoff and Günter A. Buchwald.

Supplemental material includes Kafka Goes to the Movies (2002) directed by Hanns Zischler (55 minutes); and a 28-page trilingual (German, English and French) insert booklet with writings by Hanns Zischler and Stefan Drössler.

This is our recommended home video edition of these films. North American collectors will need a region-free PAL DVD player capable of outputting an NTSC-compatible signal to view this edition.