Michael Haneke's film of Franz Kafka's THE CASTLE pairs one of the most influential voices in 20th century literature with one of the most visionary filmmakers of the new millennium. It was originally broadcast on Austrian television in 1997. A film as complex, vivid, and 'intriguing' (New York Times) as Orson Welles' The Trial, The Castle is both an ingenious, perversely faithful interpretation of the master of alienation.