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All Episodes of Kafka

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The story of Franz Kafka's life from different perspectives. Presenting his difficult relationship with his domineering father Hermann, his deep friendship with Max Brod and his various love affairs.

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Season 1

8.2/1072 votes
Family
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 3/26/2024
Kafka's father --to whom Franz will address a merciless indictment of over 100 pages, never sent in his lifetime but posthumously published as "Letter to the Father"-- is strict and domineering.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
7.9/1062 votes
Bureau
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 3/27/2024
Kafka has an ambiguous relationship with his workplace; a brilliant insurance lawyer, Kafka is highly respected by his colleagues who, at the height of WW1, save his life by preventing him from enlisting.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
7.7/1062 votes
Milena
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 3/27/2024
Kafka has a brief but intense relationship with the charismatic writer Milena Jesenská, who translated his work from German to Czech; he revealed his most intimate self to her and entrusted her with the safekeeping of his diaries.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
7.6/1057 votes
Dora
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 3/27/2024
Kafka has a last great love, Dora Dymant, whom he meets in a Baltic sea resort which his imagination turns into the mythical village of his final novel "The Castle"; after moving in together to a flat in Berlin, Dora cares for Kafka until the end.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
7.5/10103 votes
Max
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/26/2024
Max Brod is a well-connected writer and editor who saves his close friend's work from oblivion by breaking his promise to burn all unpublished papers after Franz's death; Max carries them to safety on the last train out of Prague at the onset of WW2.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
7.5/1084 votes
Felice
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 3/26/2024
Kafka has a turbulent relationship with his on and off fiancée Felice Bauer; after getting to know each other mainly through letters, their engagement is broken off, renewed, only to be broken off again.
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