{"id":253499,"date":"2025-10-31T15:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T15:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/253499\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T15:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T15:47:08","slug":"first-trailer-for-agnieszka-hollands-kafka-biopic-franz-unveiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/253499\/","title":{"rendered":"First Trailer For Agnieszka Holland\u2019s Kafka Biopic ‘Franz’ Unveiled"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: \u00a0Three-time Oscar nominated Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Holland is in the running for an Academy Award once again with biopic Franz<\/a> exploring the life of enigmatic Czech writer Franz Kafka, which is Poland\u2019s entry this year.<\/p>\n

\n\tCohen Media Group, which we announced last week had acquired<\/a> U.S. rights for the film, is gearing up for a one-week qualifying theatrical run in December, ahead of a wider release in 2026, and Deadline can reveal the trailer.<\/p>\n

\n\tIdan Weiss stars as the The Metamorphosis and The Trial author alongside a cast also featuring Peter Kurth, Jenov\u00e9fa Bokov\u00e1, Ivan Trojan, and Sandra Korzeniak.<\/p>\n

\n\tConceived as a kaleidoscopic mosaic spanning from Kafka\u2019s birth in 19th-century Prague to his death in post\u2013World War I Vienna, Holland\u2019s film captures both the man and the myth, revealing the writer\u2019s creative vision, alienation, and lasting cultural imprint.<\/p>\n

\n\tFollowing its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, Franz has also played at San Sebastian, Rio de Janeiro, Busan, Vancouver, Chicago, Woodstock and will also be playing at Newport Beach, Denver, and Cairo.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film is lead produced by Sarka Cimbalova and Holland, and co-produced by Marcin Wierzchos\u0142awski, Alicja Jagodzi\u0144ska, Uwe Schott, and Jorgo Narjes with Mike Downey and Jeff Field serving as Executive Producers.<\/p>\n

\n\tHolland was previously nominated for for Angry Harvest (1985), Europa Europa (1990), and In Darkness (2012) with other features including Olivier, Olivier (1992), The Secret Garden (1993), Total Eclipse (1995), Julie Walking Home (2001), Spoor (2017), Mr. Jones (2019), Charlatan (2020), and the Venice Jury Prize winner Green Border (2023).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: \u00a0Three-time Oscar nominated Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Holland is in the running for an Academy Award once again…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,61111,344],"class_list":{"0":"post-253499","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-franz","12":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}