Overview
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.
Fun facts
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Awards
Won the Nika Award for Best Costume Design (1995)
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Music
Music by Sergey Kuryokhin
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Sergey Yurizditsky and Andrey Zhegalov
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Sergei SelyanovWriter
- Franz KafkaNovel
- Aleksei BalabanovWriter
- Original title
- Замок
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- December 26, 1994
- Original language
- Russian
- Countries
- Germany, France, Russia
Production
Cast
Nikolay StotskiyLand Surveyor
Svetlana PismichenkoFrida
Anvar LibabovHelper
Viktor SukhorukovHelper
Igor ShibanovBrunswick
Andrey Smirnovteacher
Vladislav DemchenkoVarnava
Bolot BeyshenalievVillage Senior
Svetlana SvirkoOlga
Olga AntonovaKhozyaika traktira- Viktor MikhaylovKhozyain traktira
Yury EllerGersteker- Richard BogutskiiHotel Owner
Irina SokolovaMicci
Konstantin DemidovSchwarzer
Aleksei GermanКламм
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