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Nabokov on Kafka / from WQED Pittsburgh ; a production of WQED/Pittsburgh in association with Kingston International Communications ; QED Communications ; produced by James Fleming ; directed by Peter Medak ; adapted by S.A.J. Thomas.
LIBRA DVD PN1995.9.M45 N3365 2007
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977--Drama.
- Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich.
- Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924--Drama.
- Kafka, Franz.
- College teachers--United States--Drama.
- College teachers.
- Short stories--History and criticism--Drama.
- Short stories.
- Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924.
- Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977.
- Short stories, Russian.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Short films.
- Melodrama.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Drama
- Made-for-TV movies
- Melodrama
- Short films
- Made-for-TV movies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (30 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- Place of Publication:
- Pittsburgh : QED Enterprises ; Thousand Oaks, CA : Distributed by Monterey Media, ©2007.
- Language Note:
- English dialogue.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, Region 1; full screen (1.33:1) presentation.
- Summary:
- Vladimir Nabokov, widely considered to be one of the world's great writers, was also a remarkable professor at Cornell University. In this drama, Christopher Plummer portrays Nabokov and presents a lecture on Kafka, briefly reincarnating one of the most fascinating, erudite scholars of literature the world has ever known. Provides an insight to "The metamorphosis," Kafka's perplexing story about a man who wakes one morning to discover that he has turned into a beetle. One of the most widely read and studied short stories of all time, Kafka's greatest work--and Nabokov's brilliant critique of it--is humorously and intensely brought to life
- Participant:
- Christopher Plummer (Vladimir Nabokov).
- Credits:
- Editor, Gary Hines ; music, Dick Hyman ; wardrobe design, Barbara Anderson ; literary director, Albert Sonnenfeld.
- Notes:
- Based on "Good Readers & Good Writers--Franz Kafka: The Metamorphosis" from Lectures on Literature by Vladimir Nabokov
- Originally produced in 1989.
- ISBN:
- 9781569943243
- 1569943249
- OCLC:
- 173492819
- Publisher Number:
- 012233299724
- 329972 Monterey Media
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