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FRANZ KAFKA'S A COUNTRY DOCTOR |
| Original Title : Kafka Inaka Isha |
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Director :YAMAMURA Koji
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| Year : 2007 |
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Running Time:21min |
| Color :color |
Genre:Animation |
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Festival&Awards :
MONSTRA Grand Premio (08) / ANIFEST (08) Best Short Film / Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film Festival (08) Grand Prix / OTTAWA (07) Grand Prize for Best Independent Short Animation / New York (07) / SITGES (07) /
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Introduction :
A short animation from academy award nominee Koji Yamamura based on famed Jewish-Czech writer Franz Kafka's short prose, "A Country Doctor" from 1919. |
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Story:
A hapless country doctor describes with breathless urgency a night-time summons to attend
a young patient. Events soon take on a surreal aspect as "unearthly horses" transport him
instantaneously to the bedside. The doctor, preoccupied with personal distractions and
grievances against those he is employed to care for, fails to find what is revealed to be a
vile, fatal wound. He is humiliated by the villagers who are "always expecting the
impossible from the doctor," and doomed to an endless return trip, losing everything. |
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