This is an excellent award winning short film written and directed by the immensely talented Peter Capaldi. It stars Richard E. Grant, Elaine Collins, Phyllis Logan, Cripin Letts and Ken Stott, and is a comedy about Kafka’s frustrations in writing Metamorphosis. There’s also a little nod towards the work of Frank Capra it should be said.

This film was released back in 1993 and was a deserved Oscar winner, for best short film, in 1995. Capaldi is nowadays better known for his foul-mouthed Maloclm Tucker from “The Thick of It”.

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