Dir. Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet
France, West Germany, 1984
35mm, 127 min.
Kafka's first novel
Amerika is also his last. Never finished, it explores his trademark oppressive ideas around what it means to live in the current post-industrial age. Fertile ground for Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet to adapt to the screen,
Class Relations brings to life the wandering journey of Karl Rossman as he explores Amerika. Powerful, enlightening, and deeply suffocating, Straub-Huillet adapts Kafka like never before.
The series 'Decoding Kafka: A Cinematic Interpretation' is programmed by Irena Čajková and presented by Doc Films in partnership with the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago, the Goethe-Institut Chicago, and the Consulate General of the Czech Republic in Chicago.
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