Director: Vladimir Michalek
CZ 1994, 90 min., original version with english subtitles
Starring: Martin Dejdar, Jiří Lábus, Kateřina Kozáková, Jarka Rytychová and others.
At the beginning of the 20th century, a young man from Bohemia comes to America, the land of great hopes and bitter disappointments. His uncle, the richest man in the country, takes his nephew in like a son - but demands complete submission in return. Under the harsh conditions and far away from idyllic Europe, the young man cannot survive. His uncle rejects him cruelly and unexpectedly, and he becomes an outcast with no future ...
The only feature-length Czech film adaptation of Kafka transforms the unfinished novel The Missing Man, which was written between 1911 and 1914 and published by Max Brod in 1972 under the title Amerika, into a rich collage of images and sounds, visually reminiscent of Karel Zeman's classic film. Director Michálek has found a new ending for the gloomy story of a young man who searches in vain for his place in a strictly ordered society.
The film will be presented by Christina Frankenberg, Czech Centre Berlin.
The film series is organized by the Bundesplatz-Kino Berlin, the German Cultural Forum for Eastern Europe and the Czech Centre Berlin.
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