When land surveyor K arrives at a small village that houses a castle, local authorities refuse to allow him to enter. As he tries to convince the officials that they sent for him, they clamp down with increasingly complicated bureaucratic obstacles.
Direction
Haneke's clinical, unblinking observation of human humiliation.
Acting
Ulrich Mühe's desperate, unraveling everyman.
Cinematography
Bleak landscapes that swallow hope whole.
Director
Michael Haneke
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