Kafka's seminal novel The Castle comes to DVD in November

Good news for foreign cinema fans, as Michael Haneke's masterful adaptation of Kafka's seminal novel The Castle comes to DVD on 12th November, courtesy of Artificial Eye.

Ulrich Mühe of The Lives of Others fame stars in the title role, and with an 18 certificate, the running time will be 123 minutes and the recommended retail price £15.99.

Extras will include the 24 Realities Per Second documentary about the director. Apparently the main film has never been available before in the UK as a stand-alone release, though our brains are foggy on what compilation it previously came as part of.

We do recall a Michael Haneke trilogy released by Tartan, but that didn't include this feature as far as we can recall.

A very short synopsis follows...

A land surveyor is summoned to remote village by the local government, house in 'The Castle'. But when he arrives he is unable to persuade the locals of his legitimacy and himself in an absurd spiral of provincial bureaucracy that soon becomes a surreal, all encompassing nightmare.