Films for the Humanities and Sciences

Metamorphosis

For Gregor Samsa, the ill-fated protagonist of Franz Kafka’s novel Metamorphosis, home is where the horror is. Filmed in Kafka’s native Prague and narrated by actor Jeff Goldblum, this program blends creative reenactments with expert commentary to explore how Kafka’s prescient masterpiece about a man turned into an insect shattered notions of the happy family and anticipated the darkness descending on Europe. The autobiographical aspects of the novel are richly documented, as are modern-day examples of what is now called Kafkaesque. A Discovery University Production. (51 minutes)

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Item#: BVL30743
Copyright date: ©2001
DVD ISBN 978-0-7365-5284-4


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