Rent The Castle (1997)
3.3 of 5 from 65 ratings
2h 2min
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- Synopsis:
From Michael Haneke, winner of the Palme d'Or 2009 and 2012, comes this icy, beguiling, masterful adaptation of Kafka's seminal novel, starring the late, great Ulrich Muhe. 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. Throwing open a deep thematic vein in Haneke's work, this stunning parable of alienation and absurdity highlights important parallels between the two artists' oeuvres, making it a lesser-known yet crucial part of his glittering career. - Actors:
- Ulrich Mühe, Susanne Lothar, Nikolaus Paryla, Frank Giering, Felix Eitner, André Eisermann, Dörte Lyssewski, Inga Busch, Norbert Schwientek, Hans Diehl, Birgit Linauer, Branko Samarovski, Ortrud Beginnen, Otto Grünmandl, Johannes Silberschneider, Paulus Manker, Martin Brambach, Wolfram Berger, Conradin Blum, Monica Bleibtreu
- Directors:
- Michael Haneke
- Producers:
- Veit Heiduschka, Christina Undritz
- Narrated By:
- Udo Samel
- Writers:
- Michael Haneke, Franz Kafka
- Aka:
- Das Schloß
- Studio:
- Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd.
- Genres:
- Drama
- Countries:
- Germany
