'GIVE IT UP!'
THE STORY OF A MAN LOST IN TIME AND SPACE.
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.
Top Cast
Alexander Bigaliy
as MAN
MAN
Sholto Kerr
as SCHUTZMAN
SCHUTZMAN
Arseniy Makarov
as MAN (additional)
MAN (additional)
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