All language subtitles for Kafka (2024) - S1E4

Subtitle: Norddeutscher
Rundfunk 2024.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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

Bon Voyage.

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?

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.

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.

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...

Thanks.

Dr. Kafka.

Excuse me.

I ask very much for an apology.

Excuse me.

It's also mine...

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 belt works."

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

Business trip?

Not this time.

Berlin.

What are you doing in Berlin?

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.

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?

The first cripple is
already waiting, Doctor.

Good day.

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.

"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..."

"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.

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.

Please.

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?

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.

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...

Really?

I...

- 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!

By letter.

Breathe deeply.

Deeper.

A little deeper still.

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?

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.

- 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.

Yes, definitely me.
The millstone. The old millstone!

Where he is right, he is right.

You'll take me to the grave.

Eat.

Copyright subtitles: NDR 2024