Franz Kafka's A Country Doctor
カフカ 田舎医者
“Country doctor's surreal, urgent night call ends in failure, humiliation, and endless return journey.”
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Synopsis
Country doctor's surreal, urgent night call ends in failure, humiliation, and endless return journey.
A hapless country doctor describes with breathless urgency a night-time summons to attend a young patient. Events soon take on a surreal aspect as "unearthly horses" transport him instantaneously to the bedside. The doctor, preoccupied with personal distractions and grievances against those he is employed to care for, fails to find what is revealed to be a vile, fatal wound. He is humiliated by the villagers, who are "always expecting the impossible from the doctor," and doomed to an endless return trip, losing everything. (Source: ANN)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 12 sampled reviews
5.5/10
What 12
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56% recommend
Score distribution
Agreement
SplitPolarized
σ 2.57 · split reception
The polarity gap
5.6 ptsRecommenders 7.8 · others 2.3
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Score over time
1.50Verbosity
Short · 25%
Medium · 50%
Long · 25%
Snap verdicts · shortest highly-rated reviews
- 7/10 “Story with the same name as the compilation of short narratives published in 1920. ''A rural doctor'' is incredible for some clear reasons: first, the story carries the typical Kafkaesque...”
- 7/10 “Watching Der Landarzt feels like falling headfirst into a fever dream. So basically, classic Kafka. I haven’t actually read the original story, but as a big fan of Kafka’s general vibe, this short...”
- 7/10 “Franz Kafka's stories are known for their weirdness, and so it was inevitable that at least one would be adapted to anime, where a little bit of weird is the norm. ("The Metamorphosis" is...”
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A self-contained story.
No sequels, spin-offs or alternate tellings — Franz Kafka's A Country Doctor begins and ends here.
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Reel · 01 Cat. №BS-2954
- Format
- 1 × 20′
- eps × min
- Total runtime
- 0h 20m
- all episodes
- Aired
- Oct 2007 – Oct 2007
- Fall 2007
- Source
- Movie
- media type
- Rated
- PG
- 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref.
- BS-2954
- catalog