'GIVE IT UP!'

'GIVE IT UP!' (2025)

THE STORY OF A MAN LOST IN TIME AND SPACE.

  • Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Horror, Music, Animation
  • Release Date: 2025-07-05
  • User Rating: 10/10 from 2 ratings
  • Runtime: 0h 16min
  • Language: English
  • Production Country: Austria, Slovakia, United Kingdom, Germany
  • Director: Alexander Bigaliy
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Summary

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.

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  • Alexander Bigaliy

    as MAN
  • Sholto Kerr

    as SCHUTZMAN
  • Arseniy Makarov

    as MAN (additional)
  • Vladimir Makarov

    as MAN (additional)
Directing Alexander Bigaliy Director
Camera Alexander Bigaliy Director of Photography
Sound Nicholas Singer Music
Sound James Yen Music
Production Alina Turarbekova Producer
Production Vladimir Makarov Producer
Art Arseniy Makarov Production Design
Art Arseniy Makarov Set Designer
Production Vikram Jayanti Executive Producer
Editing Alexander Bigaliy Editor
Writing Alexander Bigaliy Writer
Writing Franz Kafka Writer

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