with John Wood as FRANZ KAFKA and his hero ' K '
This year is the 50th anniversary of the death of the Czech writer Franz Kafka , and Omnibus tonight presents an adaptation of scenes from his book The Castle. Since his death Kafka has become a cult figure - his world has seemed prophetic: the suffocation of city life, red-tape, bureaucracy, the secret police, events which twist from logic into nightmare. The Castle is the story of a search -for a weird and elusive authority in a village lost in the snow.
Tonight's film tries to solve its mystery - through hints, no more than hints (no final solution is certain) from the book itself and the life of the man who wrote it.
With GEORGE BALLANTINE
HUGH CECIL , LESLIE BRYANT
NICHOLAS KANE , NIGEL STEVENS and the voice of LEWIS STRINGER
Film cameraman BILL MATTHEWS Editor JOHN NEEDHAM
Designer GLORIA CLAYTON
Executive producer MIKE WOOLLER
Written and directed by COLIN NEARS
(John Wood and Tony Church are members of the RSC)