Synopsis

Inspired by Kafka’s diaries and letters, Piotr Dumała’s animated gem evokes the writer’s inner world, from his youth, sexual awakening, through the ripening of his creative genius to his eventual isolation.

Piotr Dumala

Piotr Dumała (1956) is a screenwriter, animator, set designer, teacher, graphic artist, illustrator, cartoonist, writer, critic, and actor. He graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, and is a director of numerous animations, often addressing existentialistic questions, such as A Gentle Spirit (1985), Wolność nogi (1988), Franz Kafka (1991), Crime and Punishment (2000), and Las (2009). In his animations he uses a traditional stroke, and a plaster panel technique he invented by himself.