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The Castle

1969, Movie, NR, 93 mins

The Castle: Review

Franz Kafka's allegorical, unfinished novel is given fairly good treatment here. Schell is surveyor K, who is summoned to a remote village by the unseen occupants of a castle. In the town he finds there is no work for him, so he tries to contact the people in the castle. The villagers oppose him at every turn, and gradually he becomes obsessed with talking to the authorities in the fortress. At one point Schell almost meets a visiting secretary from the castle, but at the la... read more leave a comment