Kafka in Komiks - Special Screening: 'Das Schloss' / 'The Castle' by Michael Haneke
in collaboration with Austrian Cultural Forum
Wednesday 10 December, 7pm, Goethe-Institut London
Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke’s version of Franz Kafka’s famous unfinished novel is an ingenious, perversely faithful interpretation of the work.
‘Kafkaesque’ has come to mean the individual’s helplessness in the face of an incompetent or malign state apparatus which Haneke brilliantly exploits in his interpretation of the novel for which he has assembled a brilliant cast including the late Ulrich Mühe (The Lives of Others) and the late Susanne Lothar.
This rarely seen made-for-TV adaptation highlights how much the director of The Piano Teacher, Caché or Funny Games has been influenced by the master of alienation.
Austria 1994, colour, 123mins. With English subtitles. Directed by Michael Haneke. With Ulrich Mühe, Susanne Lothar, Frank Giering, André Eisemann.
http://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/lon/ver/en13598364v.htm
The screening is part of the exhibition K: KafKa in KomiKs at the Goethe-Institut London.
http://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/lon/ver/en13372315v.htm
Screening by courtesy of Artificial Eye and Wega Film Vienna
Goethe-Institut London, 50 Princes Gate, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2PH
Tickets: £3, free for Goethe-Institut language students and library members, booking essential.
Booking: +44 20 75964000
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