Agnieszka Holland’s next film will be a biography. She dealt with the life of a writer connected with Prague – a city close to the director. Holland studied at the Film and Television Department of the Academy of Performing Arts. The director, quoted by “Fakt”, calls the film “a strange biography of Franz Kafka” and says that theoretically it is a completely different topic than the one discussed in “The Green Border”, but not entirely.
Agnieszka Holland about Kafka: Today we have a greater chance to understand him than his peers a hundred years ago
– A young boy who plays the main role in the film (Idan Weiss – editor’s note) and who is an Israeli German, wrote to me after watching “The Green Border” that now I have to make a film about that war, but I wrote to him that it is so many great Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers, and they are the ones who have to deal with this issue. Likewise, I wouldn’t make a film about the war in Ukraine now, because Ukrainian filmmakers should have this chance, if they have the strength to deal with this topic, of course – says Holland.
The first reports about a film about Kafka appeared in 2022. At that time it was possible to read that Holland was to show the life of the author of “The Trial” from his birth in 1883 until his premature death from tuberculosis in 1924. “It will also include images looking into the future that he predicted and felt. His sister died in Auschwitz, two others were murdered in the camp near Chełmno” – “Rzeczpospolita”, quoting Holland:
Kafka was a man of great sensitivity, not adapted to his times. We have a greater chance to understand him today than our peers did a hundred years ago. He was the soul of the third millennium. He existed largely outside the reality of his body. He lived in the world of letters as intensely as modern man lives in social networks. To understand Kafka, we want to carefully piece together fragments of Kafka’s past and work, creating a mosaic that goes beyond his life, but also to create on the screen an image of the dramatic world of Kafka’s imagination.
At the Eagles gala she said: There is no democracy without humanity
During the Eagles award gala, Holland once again commented on the situation on the Polish-Belarusian border. She dedicated “The Green Border” to the human drama taking place there and repeatedly criticized the policy of the PiS government, as well as the passivity of the European authorities. Now the director refers to the changes that took place in parliament last year, but did not improve the situation of refugees. Holland said:
The government has changed to the one I voted for. I should be happy. Meanwhile, on the border we talked about, things are still happening that shouldn’t be happening. When the Border Guard continues to torture people and show contempt for them, there is no democracy and no humanity. There is no democracy without humanity. If, given the dilemma of choosing comfort or values, we choose comfort, then in the end we will have neither comfort nor values. The monsters that fight our brothers and sisters abroad will win.
“The Green Border” was awarded not only the Eagle for the best film. The production was also appreciated, among others: Special Jury Prize at the Venice International Film Festival. Preparations for the production of a film about Kafka began at the end of last year, and shooting is scheduled to start in full swing in April.
Source: Gazeta
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