Ulrich Mühe

From director Michael Haneke, THE CASTLE is both an engenious, perversely faithful interpretation of the master of alienation's novel, and a worthy companion to The Piano Teacher, Cache, and other films.

Two psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another.

Michael Haneke’s provocative study of emotional disconnection in the age of mass-media saturation is a metacinematic labyrinth in which the boundaries between actual and mediated violence become terrifyingly indistinguishable. Arno Frisch stars as the teenage son of wealthy, disengaged parents whose obsession with violent videos leads him to create his own monstrous work of real-life horror.

Amen examines the links between the Vatican and Nazi Germany. Kurt Gerstein, a Waffen-SS officer employed in the SS Hygiene Institute, is designing programs for the purification of water and the destruction of vermin.