The Castle is a 1968 West German film directed by Rudolf Noelte and starring Maximilian Schell

Maximilian Schell

Maximilian Schell is an Austrian-born Swiss actor who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Judgment at Nuremberg in 1961...

, Cordula Trantow

Cordula Trantow

Cordula Trantow is a German actress and director. For her performance as Geli Raubal in the 1962 film, Hitler, she was nominated for a 1962 Golden Globe in the category: Most Promising Newcomer -Female....

, Trudik Daniel and Helmut Qualtinger

Helmut Qualtinger

Helmut Qualtinger was an Austrian actor, writer and cabaret performer.-Biography:Helmut Qualtinger was born in Vienna, Austria...

. It is based on the 1926 eponymous novel by Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka was a culturally influential German-language author of short stories and novels. Contemporary critics and academics, including Vladimir Nabokov, regard Kafka as one of the best writers of the 20th century...

. It was chosen as West Germany's official submission to the 44th Academy Awards

44th Academy Awards

The 44th Academy Awards were presented April 10, 1972 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Helen Hayes, Alan King, Sammy Davis, Jr., and Jack Lemmon. One of the major highlights of the evening was the appearance of Betty Grable, who was battling...

 for Best Foreign Language Film

Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the Academy Awards of Merit, popularly known as the Oscars, handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...

, but did not manage to receive a nomination. It was also listed to compete at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival

1968 Cannes Film Festival

The 21st Cannes Film Festival was held on May 10 - 24, 1968, before being cancelled due to the turmoil of May 1968 in France.Peter Lennon's documentary Rocky Road To Dublin was to be the final film screened at the festival...

, but the festival was cancelled due to the events of May 1968 in France.

Cast

• Maximilian Schell
  Maximilian Schell
  Maximilian Schell is an Austrian-born Swiss actor who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Judgment at Nuremberg in 1961...
  
   - 'K'
• Cordula Trantow
  Cordula Trantow
  Cordula Trantow is a German actress and director. For her performance as Geli Raubal in the 1962 film, Hitler, she was nominated for a 1962 Golden Globe in the category: Most Promising Newcomer -Female....
  
   - Frieda
• Trudik Daniel - Innkeeper's Wife
• Friedrich Maurer - Mayor
• Helmut Qualtinger
  Helmut Qualtinger
  Helmut Qualtinger was an Austrian actor, writer and cabaret performer.-Biography:Helmut Qualtinger was born in Vienna, Austria...
  
   - Burgel
• Else Ehser - Mizzi
• E. O. Fuhrmann - Momus
• Karl Hellmer
  Karl Hellmer
  Karl Hellmer was an Austrian film actor. He appeared in 92 films between 1932 and 1969.He was born in Vienna, Austria and died in Berlin, Germany.-Selected filmography:* Ungeküsst soll man nicht schlafen gehn...
  
   - Schoolmaster
• Benno Hoffmann - Uniformed Man
• Hanns Ernst Jäger - Landlord
• Iva Janzurová
  Iva Janžurová
  Iva Janžurová is a Czech actress. She attended grammar school in České Budějovice, but her love to theatre won after all and in 1963 she graduated from the Faculty of Theatre of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague...
  
   - Olga
• Georg Lehn - Barnabas
• Leo Mally - Gerstäcker
• Franz Misar - Arthur
• Johann Misar - Jeremiah
• Armand Ozory - Erlanger
• Hans Pössenbacher
  Hans Pössenbacher
  -Selected filmography:* Shock Troop * Um das Menschenrecht * The Bashful Elephant * Black Flowers for the Bride -External links:...
  
   - Innkeeper
• Martha Wallner - Amalia

See also

• List of submissions to the 44th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
• List of German submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

External links

• The Castle at Filmportal.de