Kafka, Kiffer und Chaoten

Kafka, Ganja, Maniacs

It is summer and five overly-seasoned college students have been given the task of writing a group paper on Franz Kafka’s “The Country Doctor.” At first they are reluctant, but in a cloud of hashish they come up with the idea to film the story instead. Their film location is a campsite in Sicily, which they had already booked ages ago for summer vacation. The technical department consists of a couple of “unique” men from the Vienna film scene. To everyone’s surprise, they even manage to get Kafka himself to play a supporting role in the film. KAFKA, GANJA, MANIACS parodies bizarre artists in a crazy road movie with some animation, video clips, and musical interludes mixed in. Incidentally, Kafka himself also gets the chance to revise his life story and finally live out the rest of his days in happiness.

Director's Biography
Kurt Palm, geboren 1955 in Vöcklabruck, lebt als Autor und Regisseur in Wien. Inszenierte zahlreiche Opern- und Theaterstücke im In- und Ausland. Für seinen Roman „Bad Fucking“ wurde er mit dem Friedrich-Glauser-Preis 2011 ausgezeichnet. 2012 erhielt er den Kulturpreis des Landes OÖ für Film. // Filme (Auswahl): IN SCHWIMMEN-ZWEI-VÖGEL (1997), DER SCHNITT DURCH DIE KEHLE ODER DIE AUFERSTEHUNG DES ADALBERT STIFTER (2004), DER WADENMESSER ODER DAS WILDE LEBEN DES WOLFGANG MOZART (2005), HERMES PHETTBERG, ELENDER (2007), KAFKA, KIFFER UND CHAOTEN (Kafka, Ganja, Maniacs, 2013)
Local Artists 2014
Kurt Palm
Austria 2014
color
82 minutes
OV with English subtitles
Screenplay Kurt Palm, in col. w. R. Jud (insp. by novel “Franz Kafka verfilmt seinen Landarzt" E. Henscheid)
Cinematography Martin Putz
Editing Karina Ressler, Stefan Fauland
Sound/Sounddesign Roland Winkler
Music Chrono Popp
With Marc Fischer, Karin Yoko Jochum, Max Mayer, Julia Jelinek, Aurel von Arx, Tim Breyvogel, Christian Strasser, Steffen Höld, Florentin Groll, Hubsi Kramar, Margarethe Tiesel, Nancy Mensah-Offei, O.P. Zier, Franz Schuh, Karl Ferdinand Kratzl
Production
Fischer Film GmbH Neustiftgasse 32-34 1070 Vienna Austria T +43 1 5247425 F +43 1 5247425 3 info@fischerfilm.com www.fischerfilm.com Verleih in Österreich / Austrian Distribution filmladen Filmverleih GmbH Mariahilfer Straße 58/7 1070 Vienna Austria T +43 1 523 43 620 F +43 1 526 47 49 office@filmladen.at www.filmladen.at Pressebetreuung / Press Agent Susanne Auzinger PR