The Polish Film Institute has picked Agnieszka Holland ‘s Kafka , a non-chronological and playful biopic on iconic Czech writer Franz Kafka, to be Poland’s candidate for the 2026 Oscars in the best international feature category.

In her latest feature, Holland, an Oscar nominee for In Darkness (2011), Europa Europa (1990), and Angry Harvest (1985), combines recreated scenes from Kafka’s life with sequences from modern-day Prague, which show how the master of alienation and angst has been turned into a brand to attract tourists and sell tchotchkes.

Newcomer Idan Weiss plays Kafka. Peter Kurth ( Babylon Berlin ) plays Kafka’s overbearing father, Carol Schuler his long-suffering partner Felicie Bauer, and Gesa Schermuly and Jenovefa Bokova his romantic interests Grete Bl

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