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Norddeutscher Rundfunk 2024

♪ Restless string music ♪

*tick*

*Shrill alarm clock*

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*yawn*

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Actually, you have to start differently.

The bureaucracy, the offices, the files.

Where did he get all that from?
the Dr. Kafka from Prague?

Why did he know it so well?

♪ Quiet, gentle piano sounds ♪

Up so early?

Business trip.

I wrote all night long.
Again?

Just that I just
didn't write.

Didn't write all night.

But didn't you sleep?
Neither.

When do you actually sleep?
I do not sleep.

Where are you driving to?
Aussig, then Gablonz.

You have to sleep sometimes, Franz.

I can only write at night.
Otherwise there is no time.

*door creaks*

What's going on here?
- Franz is going on a business trip.

Well, it won't hurt,
also some work to do.

Father, I am very tired.

Just eat properly

and don't doodle half the night
on paper.

If only it were half the night.

♪ Calm, playful music ♪

Kafka!

Kafka.

Such a joy.

Mr. Werfel.

Your transformation. My God!

My God, my God.
Kafka! The transformation.

What have you done?
What were you doing there?

Yes, it was a difficult time.

They are so pure.

New.

Independent.

Completed.

One would have to deal with you,
as if they were already dead.

As if you were already immortal.
Already dead?

There was no such thing before -
not in all of world literature.

We all have to stop, you
to treat like a fellow human being.

Where are you going?

Leipzig. To our publisher. She?
Aussig.

Yes, why is that? Business trip.

Then we're on the same train.
Yes. Nice.

I'm traveling first class.

Third.

Oh.

For Prague officials
Accident insurance company.

We drive
always on business trips...

If we pay up,
we have to bear it ourselves.

Understand.

*bells tinkling*

(announcement in Czech)

Have a good trip then, dear Kafka.
You wonderful person.

Bon Voyage.

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Dr. Kafka was good
in his job.

You probably have to start with that.

Did you expect that?

As soon as a case
was even a little complicated,

he was entrusted with it.

The classification of the company
my client by the authorities

is incomprehensible.

Dr. Kafka.

Excuse me.

The classification
is based on the hazard table.

Could you speak louder?

... is based on the hazard table
and can be understood by everyone.

The moment that determines the danger
Weaving lies in the machinery.

The material determines the machine.

Come to us
only wool looms were used.

There is no danger in the operation
increasing fast cotton loom.

The type of looms
has an influence on the risk of accidents.

It is alone
the determining factor.

That doesn't entitle us to
to ignore regulations.

If a company
cotton processed,

is he
to be classified in hazard class 2.

The danger
depends on the looms.

Mr. Rath.

The company is a cotton
and semi-wool weaving.

In order to address the objections,
he was

to the lowest danger percentage 7
registered.

Class 2 is that
what we contest.

This appeal was
from the Lieutenancy

and at the ministry
negative decision.

The legislator
gives no leeway here.

Dr. Kafka, maybe
an agreement would be possible.

Nobody wants unity anymore

as the general one
Workers' Compensation Insurance.

But the product
determines the danger class.

Congratulations on the well-deserved victory.
Do you have time for lunch?

There are dumplings at the Skränker.

Sorry, but I have one
Afternoon appointment in Gablonz.

If you don't know these dumplings,
weren't you in Aussig?

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The correct filling
of the questionnaire

is in the interest of the institution.

But also
in the interests of the manufacturers,

so in your interest.

Oh really? Absolutely.

It has now and then
Misunderstandings ...

Now and then!

Due to inadequate filling
of the questionnaires...

The questionnaires are inadequate!

... is a more common broadcast
the same is necessary,

so that the institution
Can assess hazard classes.

We're all on that
same page. * babble of voices *

Our institution strives to
a good relationship between them

and the members of the...
The forced members!

Gentlemen.

Gentlemen,
I understand your objections.

I will address any complaints
submit to the management.

It had it
didn't start well at all.

When formally admitted
it was common

that the young gentlemen expressed their thanks
addressed to the President.

It is a special honor for me

accident insurance
from now on in the conceit position

all my labor
to provide.

He was, let's put it bluntly,
stopped through protection.

The president's son
was a classmate.

Thank you, young man.

I hope you prove yourself
worthy of the institution.

It will be my entire aspiration,
Dear Mr. President.

*giggle*

Dr. Jehlek.

Dear Doctor Director,
I'm honoured,

the...accident to work.

My work force
to provide.

To be worthy of the greatest honor.
- Thank you, young man.

We also hope that you...

*giggle*

Thanks.

Dr. Kafka.

Excuse me.

I ask very much
for an apology.

Excuse me.

Doctor... *laugh*

It's also mine...

* Laugh *

* Laugh *

* Laugh *

* Laugh *

He was hired anyway.

And he got promoted.

Have you seen?
He invoked title 323.

The regulations are clear,
he said.

When cotton is processed,

we have a corresponding one
classification to be carried out.

But then he looked stupid
the gentleman lawyer.

He couldn't think of anything else!

If a case
can be won at all,

then Kafka will win him.

And in Gablonz...

Even the newspaper
wrote about him.

"Speaker spread at first

about the obligation to have accident insurance
in general

and then discussed the one
small commercial motor companies,

especially the beltworks."

Classic.

“The number of complaints is large

about the classification
into the danger classes.

And yet here I will
on the part of the institution

with the utmost conscientiousness
proceeded."

Hear hear!

I would have liked to have been there.

Colleague.

If I may allow myself,
I ...

... had during my vacation
again ...

How nice. Give it to me.

Only if you have time
Colleague. I ask you.

There is always time for poems.

And me ...

... then would also have something in return.

"About the meter
in Goethe's late work

using Pandora as an example."

I can `t stop doing that.

Your lecture
in front of the Goethe Society

is still available to everyone
in strong memory.

This is just pure hobby.

I wonder,
what the Dr. Kafka is currently doing.

He wasn't in the office today.

Apparently he's up
too exhausted from the business trip.

Maybe he's writing.

His novella, The Judgment,
That excited me to an extent

and disturbed that I did it
difficult to describe.

Such a strange mood.

And this man is sitting next door,
I thought while reading.

That's incredible.

Did you know,
that he is a factory owner?

No! Well, if I tell you.
An asbestos factory.

He does it all casually,
this devil.

I can really imagine
like him right now

sitting at the desk at home
and listens to his visions.

I see it in front of me.

Sometimes he paces up and down.

Sometimes he pauses.

Then another idea hits him
and the pen flies across the paper.

If only you could be there.

Invisible.

Looking over his shoulder.

Then you would
maybe understand.

The riddle of the poet genius.

The secret of creativity.

*doodle*

Yes.

(The most devoted one permits
thus join the laudable board

the polite request
for comprehensive regulation

his salary ratios
submit to

and to make the request:

They want his classification
to the first salary level

the third class
to 3600 crowns.

Drawn,
Dr. Franz Kafka, conceptualist.)

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Doctor! I would have again
wrote a story.

Actually? If you had time.
I am very busy.

Here, a transcript.
But it can take time.

You stayed until 2:30 p.m.

But you too. Very diligent.

Good morning, Dr. Kafka.
Good morning, Dr. Quitschke.

Good morning, Dr. Kafka.
Good morning, Mr. Jehlek.

* Beat *

Ah very good.

Sit down.

They wanted to speak to me
Mr. Director Marschner?

Yes, dear Kafka.

Urgent.

Is it because of... Is it my letter?

Your letter?
Oh no, that's already done.

You'll get your raise.

They would have long ago
can ask for it.

In full height?

No.

Oh right.

They asked for very little.
Asked for.

Demanded, requested.

600 crowns. That was too modest.

We have allowed ourselves
To increase your salary by 750.

But ...
You can also ask for more.

Request. All you have to do is write.
An input is required.

I can you
the approvals in advance...

No, doctor, it's already...

Anytime, dear Kafka.
Any time really.

Thank you.

Now what it's all about, Doctor:

We urgently need your opinion
in a complicated matter.

Automobiles.

Please.

The thing is:

We need private automobiles

into compulsory insurance
to include.

The legal situation regarding this
is terribly vague.

For example, it says in...

... Reich Law Gazette
dated August 9, 1908

about liability for damages
the operation of motor vehicles:

Accidents that occur during races
or the preparation for it,

are basically accidents.

But not accidents in the sense
an accident insurance law.

There must be an insurance benefit
be provided,

but what this should look like
the ...

A company.

How?

What if we every motor vehicle
as a company in the sense

of the Accident Insurance Act
determine?

Mmm.

Regarding the chauffeur

could be the regular danger table
come into application.

Also in vehicles,
that guide their owners.

That would be one with yourself
employed driver.

So that would normally be a
Entrepreneur with one employee:

The driver, the chauffeur.

Yes now.

I knew,
They won't let us down.

However, doctor...

Yes?

It doesn't work.

What do we do with pedestrians?

At accidents
Pedestrians are also injured.

You could practically do the pedestrians
as an employee of the company

in accordance with the law...

Doctor, that's not possible.
Why not?

The motorists
would challenge the regulation.

A pedestrian
cannot become an employee,

just because he himself
near a car.

That's right.
Well, whatever.

There will be
have a regulation found,

like you did in your lecture
mentioned in Gablonz.

Dr. Marschner,
it was a failure!

But what? Nonsense!

The manufacturers
shouted me down.

Against this hostility
is difficult to arrive.

I'm not the right person for this.

The resilience of entrepreneurs
is strong, I am skinny.

But now for something completely different,
that I care more about.

If I may.

"On the meter in Goethe
Late work using the example of Pandora."

Only if you have time for it
could be unnecessary.

As a layman like me

is one's opinion
instructed by an expert.

I am by no means an expert.
Always so humble.

My knowledge of Goethe
are humble, not me.

No one who knows your writings
would agree with that.

You don't write like you
without a deep knowledge of Goethe.

Hm!

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The trial in Aussig.

Sorry about that other side
into recourse...

That was to be expected.

I could have done better
should argue.

You're fighting a losing battle
clinched a victory.

Of course the man was right.

The danger percentage may not
depend on the product,

but from the machine.

They fought heroically.

Doctor.

One... One moment, please.

can I ask you for something?

You might want to
read this?

Only if you have time.

I don't know, that's just...

Only if you have time.
And there's no rush at all.

My rhymes are not important.
All that matters is that you write.

Everything else is secondary.

Gladly.

♪ Restless string music ♪

You have visitors, doctor.
Oh no. Not bad.

You will see.

Oblovka.

Automobile.

Also automobile.
But not the same?

No. - I don't know him.

I'm too fast
driven in a horse-drawn carriage.

It's simply impossible
Always drive 15 kilometers per hour.

Not impossible, necessary.

Just imagine

if all
at 30 kilometers per hour.

The human head
is not made for that.

Just a moment, please.

The Prague Circle is here.

stop it
with that stupid Prague circle.

In your book call us that,
if necessary.

But not when I'm there.

And how was it in the province?
Terrible. It was cold.

I was yelled at.
Someone threw something.

Something hard? Paper.
Much? It was enough for me.

This office is eating me up.
It robs me of all strength.

How should I among these
Write in mindless circumstances?

You would have time in the afternoon.
You're free then.

You don't take any files home with you.

I can only write at night,
but then I would have to sleep,

to be able to work in the morning.

The work is so big, so much.
Not that much either.

My actual work:
the writing.

He works in the post office
and writes book after book.

True. The post office doesn't stop him.

I just finished the last chapter
finished - in the office.

I'll start tomorrow
with the new novel.

I, on the other hand, don't go to the office.

Be happy. I should be happy
that I'm blind?

Except you don't have to go to the office.

I give to tone-deaf people
Piano lessons. That is better?

This is actually better.

That's what the editor says,
who only writes what he enjoys.

*tick*

*Shrill alarm clock*

*yawn*

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Business trip?

Not this time.

Berlin.

What are you doing in Berlin?

* bell ringing *

* (Announcement)
The train to Berlin is ready. *

* Please get in. *

* Engine roar *

♪ Fast restless string music
with traffic noise ♪

*honk*

*door creak*

Kafka?

That's them.

I guess.

How wonderful,
that you were able to come to Berlin.

I'm Robert Musil.

I have often asked myself
whether it was right to become an editor.

You know,
that I actually write.

I've often asked myself that,

until I see your transformation
got on the table.

Now I know:
I'm sitting here for you.

Consider the Neue Rundschau
as your organ for everything,

what you do in art
want to see enforced.

Above all, yourself. Myself?

I'll take you
in the Neue Rundschau.

A whole number for your story,
and what else will it say?

There will be nothing in it.
You, nothing else.

Then everyone will understand. Nothing?

You have to go to Berlin. I am.
Move to Berlin.

Don't hesitate,
otherwise it will suddenly be too late.

Are you happy in Prague? No.

Don't just say yes.
I said no.

My work is suffocating me.
Yes, you see.

Come to the capital.
You have friends here.

I promise.

Once your narrative
was in the review,

you will be established.

You get orders, you write!

I give you my connections,
which are considerable.

Don't say no too quickly.
I wanted to say yes.

I've wanted to quit for a long time.

I want to live for writing.
And from writing.

I have money
saved for half a year.

When your transformation
was in the review,

you don't need half a year.

I don't know what to say.
Do not say anything.

Just keep writing.

Who is as good as you,
it will be discovered at some point.

He breaks through.
The whole world is listening to this.

A while
can she close herself,

but then no more.

And that's how it happened.

The whole world.

But only later, because they came before
still the last days of humanity.

The end of all things,
the really big break.

♪ Dissonant string sounds ♪

Everyone, everyone, everyone
seem to welcome it.

Cheering in the street.
Flowers in guns.

“Kill them” shouts on the tram.
I don't recognize the city.

Rilke writes
an enthusiastic poem.

Hofmannsthal
is full of the joy of war.

I understand it:
We are right, they are wrong.

God punish England.

Please, let him do it
but straight to the weapons?

In modern times we shoot
not just each other.

We can do it together too
into the cabin.

Way too narrow.

Why don't you say anything?

The war
you can't be indifferent.

What can I say?
The ultimatum to Serbia?

The disgraceful behavior
the Entente?

The cowardice of England?

Yes. Yes.

That's all?

No.

No?

In a way

it is a confrontation
between culture and civilization.

And even if the future
belongs to civilization,

that's what I say...

On the other hand, I think
none of that matters.

You can't just shoot
like mercenaries in their thirties.

Or, Franz?

What do you think?

Franz?

Do you hear me, Franz?

* babble of voices *

The first cripple is already waiting,
Doctor.

Good day.

*Wheezing cough*

Mmm.

Mmm.

Can you help me?

Yes we can.

I was a turner.

But what should I do now...

What should I do now?

We can for all cripples
Pay subsidies for retraining.

I have a list of professions,
that come into question.

*Strained panting*

* Cough *

"Chemical industry:

Men without arms or feet
can clerks,

Be a gatekeeper or wagon master."

"Roofer:

Leg defects
or deformities disqualify,

but not arm defects."

I would like to train as a roofer
in question?

Roofer?

Probably not. I understand.

"Färber, missing an arm or
Forearm makes unusable..."

* Loud cough * Unusable...

"Artificial foot with stilt -
also not usable."

"Barbers, shavers
and wig maker.

People are still to be used
in the absence of the little finger

or an eye,
provided the second eye is healthy."

"disfigurement of the face,
also wearing eye glasses,

entails occupational disability.

Because the sight of injured people
hairdresser's assistants kept customers away."

This is really what it says here.

Maybe take this with you.
Read it through.

Are you married?

No.

I wanted to, but...

It probably won't work.

Nonsense.

You can still get married.
You're not seriously injured.

They are retraining.

Everything will be back on track.
You will see.

Yes. * Cough *

Excuse me,
but I don't know what that is.

But I know it.
We can help you with that.

We're collecting money
for a specialized sanatorium.

Don't worry, sir...

Kralicek.

Don't worry, Mr. Kralicek.

It is going to be all right.

It will.

*Wheezing cough*

Please.

♪ Calm string sounds ♪

Just a moment, please.

Connect me
with Dr. Marschner.

Mr Director,

You have to as soon as possible
Find a replacement for me.

I'll get in touch.

Yes, that's what I mean.

I volunteer
and go to the front.

Mr Director?

Mr Director?

* Ring *

Yes, please?

Kafka!

Nice, your voice...

I'm sorry,
that the move won't work.

Berlin would have been glorious
we would have prepared the ground for you.

We would have rolled the red carpet,
as far as a carpet can roll.

And now this Martian nonsense
and the borders... Please?

They have WHAT?

Did they dare to do that?

Shorten the transformation -
by a third?

That's what these idiots did...
Of course not.

You have to say no. Categorically.

Then there is no transformation
in the Rundschau.

No, I can't do anything about it anymore.
I've already packed my things.

I'm going to the front tomorrow.

And you?

Are you driving too?

Oh right.

Oh.

Oh yes?

Oh.

I'm sorry for that.

Where ...

Maybe it's better that way.

Someone like you
must not be shot.

Someone like me
actually not either.

Let's see how it goes.

Goodbye.

Maybe we'll see each other again.

Goodbye.

There is nothing that can be done,
dear Kafka.

Really nothing.
We are very sorry.

You can't forbid me...
But.

Can we. You are here
completely indispensable.

Important for functioning
our institution.

So we had to
notify the ministry.

They are
banned from military service.

In my input...

Everything has already been decided.
To great regret.

From whom?

From... us.

Dear doctor,
We would love to allow you to do so.

It is important to us,
to accommodate your wishes.

But unfortunately it doesn't work.
You stay here with us, Kafka.

*Wheezing cough*

Are you okay?
It's okay, Mr. Director.

Could you
my request again...

Why then?
What do you want in war?

Such a fine, kind person
like you are.

That doesn't suit you at all.

I can do it like that
not even imagine.

While marching.
Or crawling in the dirt.

In the trenches, with the bayonet.

This is not for you.
I have to protest.

Your protest becomes natural
taken on file.

And from the months,
where the war doesn't want to end,

will be years.

And there are always more
Dead and injured.

Almost all Bohemian injured

walk through Dr.'s office Kafka
in workers' compensation insurance.

Because also a war injury
is an accident at work

within the meaning of the law.

Good morning, doctor.

Jiri?

Doctor.

They drafted me.

Not everyone is
vital to the war effort.

Mr Worzalek,
I have read your submission.

Retraining to become a dental technician
We are not allowed to subsidize it.

"Dental technician -
must have both hands,

can but
have artificial legs."

But your hands...

I have both hands.
But you're missing four fingers.

But I have both hands.

In accordance with the law
one hand has five fingers.

Where is that?

If you are committed to the profession
of the dental technician,

it must be clear to you,
that ...

There would be others too.

It says:

"Photographers, retouchers or
Copyists can use individual fingers..."

I have both hands!

You have to me
approve this grant.

I approve...

*Dark roar*

Really?

I ...

*Sad violin playing*

Is he awake? - You see it!

Did you really just say that?
"You see it"?

Franz? You almost died.

41 degree fever!

You name it now
the Spanish flu.

Without Ottla, your parents
and care day and night -

we would have lost you.

Max was usually here too.
Not worth mentioning.

My God, Franz,
we were so scared.

Your new passport.

You are Czech now. - We all!

My boss got kicked out
because he doesn't speak Czech.

In insurance
Something similar happens.

Marschner and Pfohl are retired.
You are Czech now.

A new time begins.

Franz, I have your novel
read again.

With completely new eyes.

That's almost prophetic,
like you...

Franz?

Franz!

♪ Slow Jazz ♪

(speaks Czech)

By letter.

Breathe deeply.

* rattling *

Deeper.

*gasping for air*

A little deeper still.

*gasp*

*Wheezing cough*

Keep breathing.

Yes!

Everything is not like that...

Spanish flu
You've survived, haven't you?

But ...

bronchial tip catarrh,
it stays.

Especially when ...

But, I mean:

Chicken soup with dumplings.

Gargle daily.

And especially ...

...gargle.

Gargle.

The lungs are yes
the most important of the organs.

From cough medicine
drink a quarter a day

before breakfast,
then it's right back...

It won't be that easy.

Says who?

* Cough *

* Cough *

We are a little
a hypochondriac, huh?

Yes, Dr. Millstone.

But I also recognize one
Tuberculosis when I see it.

But how do you recognize?

Look,
there are many different,

but also things in the lungs,
which was quite...

Have read up a bit
in the library?

Are we an expert now?

I wouldn't dare
to call myself an expert.

I'm a doctor and have been for...
I tell you:

Yes, I was a member
in the state tuberculosis committee.

I probably have
seen more tuberculosis sufferers

than many others.

Doctor Kafka.

I've known you for a long time.

I wished,
I would be half as healthy as you.

Let's go home.

Eat well.

Get your strength back.

They will still be us
tear up the trees.

She!

They'll bury us all.

Doctor,

please greet me
Your Mr. Father.

Such a lovely person.

*Wheezing cough*

Yes, who else? - Yes.

And?

What did the millstone say?
- The millstone is a good doctor.

He speaks loudly.

He says there's nothing wrong with me.
I have to eat well, he says.

Then everything will be okay again.
Eat well!

He said I will him
and bury you all.

(laughing) Yes, definitely me.
The millstone. The old millstone!

Where he is right, he is right.

You'll take me to the grave.

Eat.

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