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The Castle (1994)
120 min | Drama

The Castle (1994)

120 min | Drama

Mostly inspired from Kafka's unfinished novel "The Castle", a man gets called to a village for a job that no one called for, finds himself tangled up in a super-bureaucratic mess, and now he needs to fight his way around it.

Director

Aleksey Balabanov

Writers

Aleksey Balabanov | Franz Kafka (novel "Das Schloss") | Sergey Selyanov

Producer

Gennadi Petelin

Composer

Sergei Kuryokhin

Cinematographers

Sergey Yurizditskiy | Andrey Zhegalov

Editor

Tamara Lipartiya

Production Designer

Vladimir Kartashov

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Updated Dec 26, 1994

Release date

Dec 26, 1994 (Russia)

Awards

2 wins & 2 nominations

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32 cast members

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