Das Schloss (1997)

Surveyor K.'s attempt to get into the castle fails, as does his endeavour to settle in the associated village community. The harder K. tries, the further away he gets from his goal. The impenetrability and arbitrariness of the bureaucracy prevents any clarification of his social and existential situation. In the end, K. remains what he was on the day of his arrival: a - at best - tolerated stranger ... ‘Haneke captures the literal incomprehensibility of the text; like the original, his SCHLOSS leads us into uncertainty with absolute precision.’ (Diagonale) (red)