Straub-Huillet’s brilliant distillation of Franz Kafka’s incomplete first novel Amerika is perhaps the most authentically German treatment of Kafka ever made. An ecstatic and haunted fever dream of the United States — the place where Kafka longed to disappear, if only in his imagination — Amerika is told from the perspective of a young German immigrant who encounters a strange new world, with its violent lies and quixotic optimism, like a modern-day Parsifal.
DIRECTOR : Jean-Marie Straub Straub, Danièle Huillet
CAST : Christian Heinisch, Nazzareno Bianconi
- Winner - Berlin International Film Festival 1984 - Honorable Mention: Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet
- Nominee - Berlin International Film Festival 1984 - Golden Berlin Bear: Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet
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