The Castle (1968)
A man comes to a small village to begin his new job as an attendant at the nearby castle. But everybody in the village claims that he surely must be mistaken, there is no need for an attendant at the castle.
Top billed cast
Maximilian SchellK
Cordula TrantowFrieda
Helmut QualtingerBürgel
Else EhserMizzi
Karl HellmerLehrer
Benno HoffmannSchwarzer
Iva JanžurováOlga
Georg LehnBarnabas
Ilse KünkeleLehrerin
Friedrich MaurerMayor
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