Closely based on Franz Kafka's book "Das Schloß", the movie shares the same action on a land surveyor who is called to a village to do a job that no one seems to have ordered. Once there, he takes up the struggle against bureaucracy emanating from the castle.
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Cast
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Nikolay Stotskiy
Land Surveyor
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Svetlana Pismichenko
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Anvar Libabov
Helper
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Gogol. Viy
Viktor Sukhorukov
Helper
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Brother
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Igor Shibanov
Brunswick
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Andrey Smirnov
teacher
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Vladislav Demchenko
Varnava
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Bolot Beyshenaliev
Village Senior
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Andrei Rublev
The Red and the White
Svetlana Svirko
Olga
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Stalingrad
Father and Son
Olga Antonova
Khozyaika traktira
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The Asthenic Syndrome
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Viktor Mikhaylov
Khozyain traktira
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Khrustalyov, My Car!
Yury Eller
Gersteker
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Aleksei Balabanov Director · Sergei Selyanov Writer Franz Kafka Author
First release December 26, 1994 · Produced in Germany, France, Russia · Production Orient Express, Roskomkino
Production
CNC
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Orient Express
Production
Roskomkino
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Neue Bioskop Film
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CTB Film Company
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Lenfilm
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Bioskop Film
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Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée
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Germany · France · Russia
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Languages
Original title
Замок
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
Russia · December 26, 1994
Limited theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Russia
October 25, 2007 · Physical · DVD, Soyuz-Video
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