The Castle (CTBA)
Franz Kafka’s tale of a surreal bureaucratic nightmare proves a perfect match for Haneke in this adaptation.
Sat 12 Jul
15:15
Sat 12 Jul
15:15
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Sat 12 Jul
A land surveyor is summoned to a remote village by the local government, housed in ‘the castle’. But when he arrives he is unable to persuade the locals of his legitimacy and finds himself sucked into a bizarre spiral of provincial bureaucracy and petty social rivalries that soon becomes a surreal, all-encompassing nightmare.
Michael Haneke and Franz Kafka prove to be a match made in a cold, uncompromising heaven, with the writer’s source material providing fertile ground for many of the thematic concerns that recur throughout Haneke’s work.
- Director
- Michael Haneke
- Cast
- Ulrich Mühe, Susanne Lothar
- Duration
- 130 min
- Opening
- Sat 12 Jul
- Year
- 1997
- Country
- Austria
- Language
- German
- Subtitles
- English
Original title: Das Schloss