Franz (2025)

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Synopsis

Dir: Agnieszka Holland. German/Czech-language Drama/History/Biography. An account of the life of writer Franz Kafka, from his early teens to his premature death in 1924.

Content elements

• Infrequent use of scatological slang, profanity, and cursing
• Infrequent use of sexual references - little detail
• Infrequent portrayals of weapons violence in a torture context - blood and some detail
• Infrequent portrayals of illness and medical procedures - some blood and detail; infrequent references to genocide and the Holocaust
• Infrequent portrayals of sexual activity - buttock, male frontal nudity, some explicit detail
• Infrequent buttock and male frontal nudity in a non-sexual context
• Infrequent portrayals of alcohol and tobacco use in a recreational context
• Infrequent portrayals of crude bodily functions – some detail

Thematic elements

• Identity and belonging
• Legacy
• Anxiety and isolation

Classification rationale

Rated R for sexual content

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