Susanne Lothar

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.

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.

Erika is a music teacher in Vienna living a hermetic, love-hate existence with her overbearing mother, escaping only to visit porn cinemas and peepshows. When she meets clean-cut, charismatic student Walter, Erika’s carefully calibrated lifestyle is threatened. Control trades hands between student and teacher, as Erika’s masochistic tendencies are inflicted upon Walter during a torrid affair.

Ukrainian Olga is a single mother who works as a nurse but whose salary doesn't cover her outgoings. After a brief foray into web-cam porn, she moves to Vienna in search of a better life only to find she is as exploited there as she was at home. Austrian Pauli is a loser who ends up helping his degenerate stepfather Michael shift a dodgy load of slot machines to East Europe.

West Germany, early 1960s. Star crossed lovers Bern and Gudrun begin a life long affair in the stifling atmosphere of provincial Germany. Setting out to challenge the establishment they become part of the global uprising joining forces with leftist writers and political activists. By the late 60s Gudrun has joined the Baader pro-violence gang and Bern risks his sanity to finally writing a novel to change the world. An emotional true story of an explosive era starring August Diehl (Inglourious Basterds, Salt).