Plavo Pozorište (Belgrade, Serbia) 

Scenario and directing: Nenad Colic

Actors: Ranko Trifkovic, Dejan Stojkovic, Masa Jelic, Jelena Martinovic, Marko Potkonjak

Set and costume: Ivana Colic

PR: Dubravka Vujinovic

Franz Kafka wrote a letter to his father as well. That letter was never sent. It is not familiar to our knowledge that the father had ever read it. But millions of readers all around the world read it, millions of fathers, millions of mothers, millions of sons and daughters. Perhaps the letter was intended exactly for them. It is known that Kafka typed the letter on a type-writer at the end of his life, and he did that only when he was planning to publish something. Kafka wrote many letters. His entire life is a great correspondence. But Letter to Father is different.  Letter to Father unlocks all the doors. Franz explains there why the father bares part of the guilt for their estranged relationship. Even today there are many who ask themselves – where does that sorrow and lonely life begin and what that genius mind speaks about when in his notes, diaries, short stories and novels he writes about the world that surrounds him and which he doesn’t understand? And there, in Letter to Father, lays the most explicit answer to this question. Speaking to his father, in one moment Kafka says: “My writing was about you”. In the same letter, somewhere in the middle part, it is possible to find a detail which could seem unimportant. Kafka in fact didn’t like to dance. In one place in the letter he says that in his childhood, besides going to the temple, only dancing was more boring. Perhaps it is possible to connect this kind of attitude with personality of Franz Kafka, but perhaps already then, in his childhood, it was all too late. The will had already been broken.  

Duration: 90 minutes