Maximilian Schell plays an anonymous stranger called “K” who arrives at a strange village and claims he is the new land surveyor for a nearby castle. However, K meets one obstacle after another and soon discovers he can not gain access to the castle.
It’s a conflict with bureaucracy all the way as his repeated applications to the castle for residence permission are thwarted time after time, only to be granted after his death.
As K continues trying to gain entrance, we are brought into a sinister world of regiment, isolation and faceless bureaucracy.
Franz Kafka’s story was beautifully filmed in West Germany and Switzerland and originally titled Das Schloss.
K
Maximilian Schell
Olga
Iva Janzurová Innkeeper’s Wife
Trudik Daniel Frieda
Cordula Trantow Amalia
Martha Wallner Mayor
Friedrich Maurer Burgel
Helmut Qualtinger Mizzi
Else Ehser Momus
E.O. Fuhrmann Schoolmaster
Karl Hellmer Landlord
Hanns Ernst Jäger Barnabas
Georg Lehn Gerstäcker
Leo Mally Arthur
Franz Misar Jeremiah
Johann Misar
Director
Rudolf Noelte
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