Poland’s Oscar Selection Committee has chosen Agnieszka Holland ’s Franz Kafka biopic “Franz” as the country’s candidate for the best international feature film category of the 98th Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Awards.

Holland is known for Oscar nominated films “Angry Harvest,” “Europa Europa” and “In Darkness.”

The film portrays Kafka as a young man trapped in the nightmare of bureaucratic routine, eerily resembling today’s corporate world. He is a vegetarian by choice—long before it became common; he is the son of a domineering father, and entangled in fragile relationships with women.

Kafka is plunged into an existential crisis well before loneliness became a side effect of social media. Misunderstood and full of fears, he escaped into a world of irony, absurdity and

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