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Franz Kafka's 'The Trial'

Oct 01, 1988 | IMDB 0

57 min Watch Now

Documentary, Drama

BBC documentary about Franz Kafka played by GREEK TV in 1990.This documentary is one of the ten films of "The Modern World: Ten Great Writers (1988)".

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Tim Roth, David Barrass, Michael Bryant, Tatyana Colombo, Kit Jackson, Matthew Marsh, Bill Paterson, Barrie Rutter, John Bennett

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