NPR: ‘Kafka’ conjures a thoughtful — and occasionally bizarre — portrait of an iconic artist

The ultra-Orthodox Israeli filmmaker tells us about her hit show, "Fire Dance," and seeing the good and bad in everyone.

I ended up loving “Kafka,” and for some of the strangest reasons. I loved the structure of the miniseries, which is loose enough to have characters break the fourth wall and talk to the narrator and bold enough to slip from scenes of Kafka’s life to imagined scenes from his stories.