Kafka's Last Trial
Kafka's Last Trial
In Person. Click here to purchase tickets. Screening followed by Q+A with director Eliran Peled and author Benjamin Balint.
Kafka’s Last Trial
Dir. Eliran Peled
(Israel, 2024, 72 min)
At his death, Franz Kafka left behind a rich collection of unpublished manuscripts with instructions to his friend Max Brod to burn them all. Brod did not fulfill Kafka’s wishes, and the world came to know one of the great writers of the 20th century. This altruistic betrayal led to a multi-generational curse that is followed throughout this 100-year story that goes from the twisty streets of Prague to Spinoza Street in Tel Aviv, where Brod’s legendary secretary died at the age of 102, with manuscripts remaining in her home that will lead to a trial that could have been written by Kafka himself.