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Felix Eitner, Frank Giering, Inga Busch

When land surveyor K. (Ulrich Mühe) arrives at a small village that houses a castle, local authorities refuse to allow him to enter. As he tries to convince the officials that they sent for him, they ...( read more  read more... )clamp down with increasingly complicated bureaucratic obstacles.

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Directed by: Michael Haneke

Release Date: December 31, 1997

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DVD Release Date: August 21, 2007

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  • Phonex
    August 21, 2009
    Phonex
    With his penchant for open-ended narratives that are subject to infinite interpretations, Haneke fittingly chose to adapt Franz Kafka's unfinished masterpiece, The Castle, which abandons the reader, midsentence, in uncertainty and expectation. Ulrich Mü:he (The Lives of Others) s...( read more)tars as K, a land surveyor whose attempts to reach the Castle are endlessly thwarted by petty bureaucratic machinations, suspicious and prying townsfolk, a labyrinthine topography, and a relationship with a woman (...or are they merely using each other?)

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