Kafka originally titled the book The Man Who Disappeared. Having never travelled to America, Kafka read all that he could about the country as well as the letters of his two uncles who had emigrated there. The story centers on the wanderings of 16-year-old Karel Rossman, who was forced to travel to New York to escape the scandal of his seduction by a maid who becomes pregnant. Explore a view of Kafka’s work on film in this timeless tale. (DIR: Vladimír Michálek , 1994, 90 minutes, in Czech with English subtitles) 

About the Director: Vladimír Michálek, born on November 1956, in Mladá Boleslav, a smaller city not too far from Prague, is a screenwriter and a film director. After finishing high school, he went to study medicine. It was not until he was 28 that he decided to study film. Michálek broke through after the Velvet Revolution with films with strong story lines and powerful actors.  As his most famous piece might be considered Forgotten Light (Zapomenuté světlo) which won three Czech Lions.

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