{"id":47946,"date":"2025-09-06T21:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T21:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/47946\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T21:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T21:04:07","slug":"agnieszka-hollands-kafka-biopic-franz-sells-to-more-territories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/47946\/","title":{"rendered":"Agnieszka Holland’s Kafka Biopic ‘Franz’ Sells to More Territories"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tBerlin and Lyon-based sales outfit Films Boutique has announced sales for Agnieszka Holland<\/a>\u2018s Kafka biopic \u201cFranz\u201d to additional territories following its world premiere Friday at the Toronto Film Festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tAt Cannes, Variety reported exclusively that the film had already secured distribution in numerous countries (see story here<\/a>), including major territories such as Germany, France, Spain and Italy. <\/p>\n

\n\tLatest territory deals are for Sweden (Triart), Taiwan (Andrews Film), Turkey (Filmarti), Baltics (Kino Pavasaris), Denmark and Norway (Another World), Finland (Future Film), Austria (Filmladen), Switzerland (Filmcoopi), Bulgaria (Cinelibri), Greece (Cinobo), Iceland (Bio Paradis), Romania (Independenta), Ukraine (Arthouse Traffic), and Slovenia (Fivia).<\/p>\n

\n\tThe deals announced already are for Benelux (September Film), Spain (Filmin), Hungary (Vertigo), the former Yugoslavia (MCF Megacom) and Italy (Movies Inspired).<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film was previously acquired for theatrical distribution by Bac Films Distribution in France, X Verleih in Germany, Bioscop in Czech Republic and Kino \u015awiat in Poland.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film, which is conceived as a mosaic, shows the imprint Kafka left on the world from his birth in 19th-century Prague to his death in post-World War I Vienna. It sets out to give the audience a new perspective on the life of the real man behind the literary legend.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe cast includes Idan Weiss, Peter Kurth, Jenov\u00e9fa Bokov\u00e1, Ivan Trojan and Sandra Korzeniak.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe scriptwriter is Marek Epstein. \u0160\u00e1rka Cimbalov\u00e1 produces through Czech Republic\u2019s Marlene Film Production, with Holland. Co-producers are Uwe Schott, Jorgo Narjes, Marcin Wierzchos\u0142awski and Alicja Jagodzi\u0144ska.<\/p>\n

\n\tKevan van Thompson, Mike Downey and Daniel Bergman serve as executive producers.<\/p>\n

\n\tHolland is known for Oscar nominated films \u201cAngry Harvest,\u201d \u201cEuropa Europa\u201d and \u201cIn Darkness.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Berlin and Lyon-based sales outfit Films Boutique has announced sales for Agnieszka Holland\u2018s Kafka biopic \u201cFranz\u201d to additional…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[35539,18,117,35540,19,17,327,13245],"class_list":{"0":"post-47946","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-agnieszka-holland","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-franz-kafka","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-movies","15":"tag-toronto-film-festival"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}