Austrian Documentary Film: KAFKAS letzte Reise (Kafka's Last Journey), 2024

Name: Austrian Documentary Film: KAFKAS letzte Reise (Kafka's Last Journey), 2024
Start: 2024-11-26T19:00:00+02:00
End: 2024-11-26T20:00:00+02:00
Location: Goethe-Institut Zypern

Schedule

Tue Nov 26 2024 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Goethe-Institut Zypern | Nicosia, NI

In commemoration of Franz Kafka’s 100th anniversary of his passing, the Austrian Embassy in collaboration with the Goethe- Institut Zypern cordially invites you to the screening of the 2024 documentary film:
Kafka’s last journey
A film by Kafka's publisher Hans-Gerd Koch and filmmaker Clemens Schmiedbauer.
Language: German with English subtitles
Duration: 60'
Free Admission
Film Synopsis
The film traces the final stages of Franz Kafka’s life, from Prague to the Wienerwald Sanatorium near Pernitz, then to the University Hospital in Vienna, and finally to his last stop, Dr. Hermann’s Sanatorium in Kierling near Klosterneuburg.
Letters and documents are shown, revealing the desperate search of the tuberculosis-stricken Kafka for relief. In interviews with Kafka researchers, the focus is on understanding the author during the last phase of his life. A medical historian explains Kafka’s illness and the helplessness of the doctors given the state of medicine at that time.