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The Castle

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Closely based on Franz Kafka's book "Das Schloß", the movie shares the same action on a land surveyor who is called to a village to do a job that no one seems to have ordered. Once there, he takes up the struggle against bureaucracy emanating from the castle.

movie

Status: Released

Released Date: 1994-12-26

Runtime: 120 mins

Director: Aleksey Balabanov

Writer: Sergei Selyanov, Aleksey Balabanov

Spoken language: Pусский

Genres: Drama

Original title: The Castle

Production Companies: CNC, Orient Express, Roskomkino, Neue Bioskop Film, CTB Film Company, Lenfilm

Production Countries: Germany, France, Russia

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