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'GIVE IT UP!'

2025 • 0h16m Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Horror, Music, Animation

Rating

10.0/10

Popularity

0

Loosely based on Franz Kafka’s short story, 'GIVE IT UP!' is a live-action animation odyssey through the confusion of life in the modern world. The narrative follows a lone salesman trapped in a timeless city, increasingly lost in his feverish dreams. Desperate, he races towards a train station as his last hope of escaping the city, encountering divine light, winding roads and the forces of bureaucracy. This deeply personal and referential work preserves Kafka’s absurd humour and pays homage to Weimar cinema of the 1920s, but also elevates the text to an existential meditation on authority, purpose and human helplessness.

Details

Director

Alexander Bigaliy

Screenplay

Alexander Bigaliy

Franz Kafka

Cast

Alexander Bigaliy

Sholto Kerr

Arseniy Makarov

Release date

7/5/2025

Status

Released

Origin country

GB

Vote count

2