The Wish To Be a Red Indian: Kafka and Cinema 2024 / Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life / United Kingdom 1993
Franz Kafka is working on his Metamorphosis, but he’s suffering from writer’s block; he can’t get off on the right track. While trying to decide what Gregor Samsa is going to wake up as, he is constantly interrupted by door-to-door salesmen, young women, and his own inexplicable hallucinations. The film, whose title combines the name of the celebrated author with the cult family classic by Frank Capra, won the 1995 Oscar for best short live-action feature.
Lorenzo Esposito
23 min / Color, Data Files
Director Peter Capaldi
/ Screenplay Peter Capaldi
/ Dir. of Photography Simon Maggs
/ Music Philip Appleby
/ Sound Simon Bishop
/ Editor Nikki Clemens
/ Art Director John Beard
/ Producer Ruth Kenley-Letts
/ Production British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
/ Coproduction Conundrum Films, The Scottish Film Production Fund
/ Cast Richard E. Grant, Crispin Letts, Ken Stott, Elaine Collins, Phyllis Logan
/ Contact National Library of Scotland | Moving Image Archive
Peter Capaldi (1958, Glasgow). Filmography: Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life (1993), Strictly Sinatra (2001).
National Library of Scotland | Moving Image Archive
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