Franz Kafka: The Trial

Name: Franz Kafka: The Trial
Director: David Thomas
Released: 1988-03-13
Cast: David Barrass, John Bennett, Michael Bryant, Tatyana Colombo, Kit Jackson

S1 E10 March 13, 1988

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Overview

A suppressor of his own writings, Franz Kafka even requested that upon his death all his extant works be destroyed—yet those very works accurately prefigured the anxieties and alienation so commonly associated with the latter part of the 20th century. This program delves into Kafka’s fictional world, primarily through a gripping dramatization of The Trial, a combination of simple tale and complex parable describing Joseph K.’s bizarre arrest and execution. Professor George Steiner, of Geneva University, sheds light on the wellsprings of Kafka’s disturbingly prescient vision.