The Castle (Michael Haneke, 1997, 128 min)
The land surveyor K. is sent by his authority to a village to take up his post there. However, no one in the village knows anything about this assignment. K. tries to gain access to the castle, the seat of the apparently superior administration, but he is not allowed in. In the village inn, two supposed assistants are waiting for him, who understand nothing about his profession. K. continues to try to clarify his work situation, but in vain everything he undertakes leads to nothing. K. loses himself in a labyrinth of facts that turn out to be fictions.
With instinctive formal rigor, Haneke's adaptation brings the "Kafka feeling," the oppressive, hovering mood of the novel, to the screen.
Source: absolut Medien GmbH
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