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Connecting Pablo Escobar and Franz Kafka
Pablo Escobar
The cast was reported to include Christian Bale as Major Steve Jacoby and Venezuelan actor Édgar Ramírez as Escobar.
Édgar Ramírez
Among those are the first part of the two film bundle '' Che'' by Steven Soderbergh, where he played the role of Ciro Redondo (a Cuban revolutionary who fought with Ché Guevara), ''La Hora Cero'' (''The Magic Hour''), a short film directed by Guillermo Arriaga; ''Plan B'', directed by Alejandro García Wiederman (Venezuela); ''Yotama se va volando'' (''Yotama Flies Away''), directed by Luis Armando Roche (Venezuela-France); ''Punto y raya'' (''Step Forward''), directed by Elia K. Schneider (Venezuela-Spain-Chile-Uruguay), submitted by Venezuela for Oscar consideration for 2004 Best Foreign Film, in which he played Colombian soldier Pedro.
Steven Soderbergh
American film producer, screenwriter and cinematographer
In 1991, he directed ''Kafka,'' a biopic of Franz Kafka written by Lem Dobbs and starring Jeremy Irons.
The movie was well received by critics with Scott Meslow of ''GQ'' noting its relevance to the modern plight of women in patriarchal societies, it was called a "nerve-jangling modern-day Kafka story".
Pablo Escobar
*'' Loving Pablo'' (2017), Spanish film based on Virginia Vallejo's book ''Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar'' with Javier Bardem as Escobar, and Penélope Cruz as Virginia Vallejo.
Pablo Escobar
* ''Escobar'' (2009) was delayed because of producer Oliver Stone's involvement with the George W. Bush biopic ''W.'' (2008).
Slavoj Žižek
Slovenian philosopher (born 1949)
Žižek often lists Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett and Andrei Platonov as his "three absolute masters of 20th century literature". He ranks/prefers Varlam Shalamov over Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Marina Tsvetaeva and Osip Mandelstam over Anna Akhmatova, Daphne du Maurier over Virginia Woolf, and Samuel Beckett over James Joyce.
Pablo Escobar
*'' Loving Pablo'' (2017), Spanish film based on Virginia Vallejo's book ''Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar'' with Javier Bardem as Escobar, and Penélope Cruz as Virginia Vallejo.
Penélope Cruz
In 2008, Cruz starred alongside Ben Kingsley in Isabel Coixet's film '' Elegy'', which was based on the Philip Roth story ''The Dying Animal'', as the lead female role, Consuela Castillo. Ray Bennett of '' The Hollywood Reporter'' described Cruz's performance as being "outstanding in an otherwise lame male fantasy [film]." That same year, Cruz appeared in Woody Allen's '' Vicky Cristina Barcelona'' as María Elena, a mentally unstable woman, which was received with critical acclaim. Writing for the ''San Francisco Chronicle'', Mick LaSalle noted, "But the revelation is Penélope Cruz, who has never been better in an American film.
Philip Roth
During the 1970s Roth experimented in various modes, from the political satire '' Our Gang'' (1971) to the Kafkaesque '' The Breast'' (1972).
