Mr. Kneff

Mr. Kneff — Plot

Kafka, which “morphed” into Mr. Kneff, a story set in Prague in 1919 about a writer, whose miserable job provided him with literary inspiration. The new cut is twenty minutes shorter and Soderbergh also rearranged the narrative structure and coloured certain scenes to make a clearer distinction between reality and the protagonist’s imagination. The dialogues were replaced by subtitles; the music was also altered, incorporating, among others, the instrumental version of Metallica’s song “Enter Sandman”. Mr. Kneff, arguably a film about Kafka, but now without Kafka, in comparison with the original is thus noticeably estranged and more surreal.

• Runtime
• 77 min
• Genres
• Thriller, Drama
• Director
• Steven Soderbergh

Mr. Kneff — Cast

Jeremy Irons Kneff Theresa Russell