Directed by:
Rudolf NoelteCinematography:
Wolfgang TreuComposer:
Herbert TrantowCast:
Maximilian Schell, Cordula Trantow, Iva Janžurová, Trudik Daniel, Helmut Qualtinger, Friedrich Maurer, Hans Pössenbacher, Benno Hoffmann, Else Ehser (more)Plots(1)
Noelte’s adaptation of Kafka’s novel "The Castle" was unlucky to have been nominated for the Palme d’Or at Cannes in a year when the festival was cancelled half way through due to student protests (the same could be said of the submissions from three of his fellow contenders, Czech filmmakers Forman, Němec and Menzel). The film features Maximilian Schell as the land surveyor K., who arrives to take up a post in a small village, yet everyone claims he was hired by mistake. Thanks also to Schell’s superb performance, Noelte succeeded in crafting a haunting cinematic vision of the terrifying dimension of power, applied through the agency of bureaucracy and hierarchical order. Noelte also added layers of the comic and tragically grotesque, elements so fundamental to Kafka’s world. (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival)
(more)Cast
Maximilian Schell
Austria
Best movies:
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
The Reluctant Saint (1962)
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
Cordula Trantow
German Empire
Best movies:
The Bridge (1959)
The Castle (1968)
Hitler (1962)
Iva Janžurová
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Best movies:
Ikaros' Fall (1977) (TV movie)
Marecek, Pass Me the Pen! (1976)
Ubohý pan Kufalt (1981) (TV movie)
Trudik Daniel
Best movies:
The Castle (1968)
Helmut Qualtinger
Austria
Best movies:
The Name of the Rose (1986)
End of the Game (1975)
The Castle (1968)
Friedrich Maurer
German Empire
Best movies:
The Castle (1968)
Deadly Decision (1954)
Man of Straw (1951)
Hans Pössenbacher
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
The Man Who Walked Through the Wall (1959)
The Castle (1968)
Something for Everyone (1970)
Benno Hoffmann
German Empire
Best movies:
Apache Gold (1963)
Werner - Volles Rooäää!!! (1999)
A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958)
Else Ehser
German Empire
Best movies:
M (1931)
Girls in Uniform (1931)
The Castle (1968)
Georg Lehn
German Empire
Best movies:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
The Devil Strikes at Night (1957)
The Bridge (1959)
Armand Ozory
Best movies:
The Castle (1968)
Martha Wallner
Austria
Best movies:
The Last Ten Days (1955)
The Castle (1968)
E.O. Fuhrmann
German Empire
Best movies:
Yesterday Girl (1966)
The Castle (1968)
Bloody Friday (1972)
Hanns Ernst Jäger
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Und ewig singen die Wälder (1959)
The Castle (1968)