Best movie about Kafka's last unfinished novel

An engrossing essay on futility and frustration.

Schloß Bertholstein, Steiermark, Austria

Gene Hackman and Liv Ullmann in Zandy's Bride (1974)

Robert Redford, George Segal, Ron Leibman, and Paul Sand in The Hot Rock (1972)

Bruno S. in The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)

Orson Welles, Anthony Perkins, Romy Schneider, and Jeanne Moreau in The Trial (1962)

Maximilian Schell

Cordula Trantow

Trudik Daniel

Franz Kafka

Rudolf Noelte

A man comes to a small village to begin his new job as an attendant at the nearby castle. But everybody in the village claims that he surely must be mistaken, there is no need for an attendant at the castle.

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A Kafkaesque experience - in the most pedestrian meaning of the word

This is a TV movie, made at a time, when the &quot;Theatre of the Absurd&quot; still managed to entertain people. The TV people probably thought: &quot;The story doesn&apos;t make any sense at all, but it is completely absurd. So we are good.&quot;

The story: A stranger comes into a village with secretive, hostile and bureaucracy obsessed residents. Everything turns out to be deceptions and lies. Or just utter nonsense. He doesn&apos;t achieve anything. Still he is hellbent on staying there.

Watching this screen adaption of Kafka&apos;s novel is like reading one of the absurdist plays by Eugène Ionesco. It&apos;s a pointless chore done for school. It is bleak, dull and every kind of meaning people attribute to it is completely arbitrary. But it is also a product of its time and not without value. It shows how not to do a screen adaption, especially if you want to create a work that can be enjoyed without knowledge of the source material. 4/10.

This is a TV movie, made at a time, when the "Theatre of the Absurd" still managed to entertain people. The TV people probably thought: "The story doesn't make any sense at all, but it is completely absurd. So we are good."

The story: A stranger comes into a village with secretive, hostile and bureaucracy obsessed residents. Everything turns out to be deceptions and lies. Or just utter nonsense. He doesn't achieve anything. Still he is hellbent on staying there.

Watching this screen adaption of Kafka's novel is like reading one of the absurdist plays by Eugène Ionesco. It's a pointless chore done for school. It is bleak, dull and every kind of meaning people attribute to it is completely arbitrary. But it is also a product of its time and not without value. It shows how not to do a screen adaption, especially if you want to create a work that can be enjoyed without knowledge of the source material. 4/10.

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