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...surface, all is well. Like the book, the movie begins as an anonymous stranger (Maximilian Schell) arrives at a village. He announces that he is the new land surveyor for the "Castle" perched on a nearby hill. Inexplicably, the suspicious villagers already know and fear him. The remainder of the story simply concerns his futile negotiations to gain an identity from the impenetrable villagers and a calling from the inaccessible castle...
Kafka's heroes are like the sculptures of Giacometti: all elements of mask and attitude are burned away until only an irreducible essence remains. As the surveyor, Schell accurately embodies the man known only as "K." His agony and bewilderment are true, to the final exhausted syllable. The villagers are a finely balanced mixture of arrogance and dread. Kafka's tales all take place in limbo; the movie fills its snowbound setting with an unworldly black-comic air appropriate to the author, whom Thomas Mann called "a religious humorist." Pompous officials deliver pronunciamentos even when there...
WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 8:30-11:30 p.m.)* Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Dean Martin and Maximilian Schell star in Irwin Shaw's bestselling novel turned movie, The Young Lions...
HEIDI (NBC, 7-9 p.m.). A TV adaptation of Johanna Spyri's classic children's story, filmed in the Swiss Alps and Germany, starring Maximilian Schell, Jean Simmons, Sir Michael Redgrave, Walter Slezak, and Jennifer Edwards as Heidi. Oscar Winner (Marly) Delbert Mann directs...
...WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.).* Sophia Loren, Maximilian Schell and Fredric March in Jean-Paul Sartre's The Condemned of Altonu...