Premiering at TIFF, the 'Green Border' director's non-chronological feature views the Czech-German-Jewish writer's life as if through a crystal prism.

The story of a man's "metamorphosis" in a rapidly changing and increasingly isolated world. A man who has seemingly achieved everything ensconces himself in his burrow, a fortress-like apartment ...

In the dead of night, an aging doctor nearly at the end of his life is summoned to attend a young boy on his deathbed. However, his horse has died in the freezing night and having no other means of ...