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The Castle Series: Austrian Cinema [Nov 29 - Dec 7 2006] Director: Michael Haneke, Country: Austria, Release: 1997, Runtime: 123 Michael Haneke shot this adaptation the same year that he made Funny Games, and the two films are interesting companion pieces, not least for the fact that they share three principal cast members. Ulrich Mühe (the brilliant star of the upcoming German film The Lives of Others) is K, the land surveyor who arrives for a job in a village surrounding the eponymous castle and whose existence quickly degenerates into...a Kafkaesque nightmare. Haneke’s tone is unique among screen adaptations of the author, in that he focuses on Kafka’s realism rather than his sense of absurdity, and he follows (or, in some cases, duplicates) the gaps in Kafka’s original. “Kafka had realized the nature of the new society,” said Haneke. “He once said, ‘Capitalism is a system of dependencies which works from the outside to the inside, from top to bottom. Everything is connected and shackled. Capitalism reflects the state of the world and the soul." (...) The novel is about a system of dependencies which is reflected in its style and structure.” Which makes The Castle very good source material for the director of The Seventh Continent and Caché.

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