K (2002)

Three stories. We see, but little is explained. In "The Married Couple," a salesman pays a call on an old customer who is with his wife in the upstairs bedroom of their ill adult son. Another salesman may beat him to the punch, but not before disorienting changes. A maid scrubs the floor. "In the Penal Colony": a man arrives at a penal colony where an officer demonstrates a bizarre apparatus, one that punches a message into the skin of a prisoner strapped beneath it. Who will be punished? In "Fratricide," a man is murdered at night by someone he knows well. A woman grieves.

Date of release
2002-01-01
TMDB
5.2 / 10 (30)
Runtime
1h 25m
Genres
Drama, Fantasy
Director
Shoja Azari

Casting

Interesting facts

K is a 2002 film directed by the Iranian American multimedia artist Shoja Azari, based on three short stories by Franz Kafka - "The Married Couple," "In the Penal Colony" and "A Fratricide." - which are all performed by the same group of actors.

Production

K began as a 2000 project in which Shoja Azari made three Kafka-based short films. Tirgan states that the film was made during a period of collaboration between Azari and Shirin Neshat. It premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2002.

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