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Directed by Michael Haneke

The Castle

2h 10m

Directed by Michael Haneke • 1997 • Austria

Michael Haneke's adaptation of Franz Kafka's absurdist novel follows a land surveyor as he struggles with the increasingly difficult and bureaucratic practices of the local authorities.

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