The Haunted Castle
The Lost Years of German Cinema: 1949–1963
November 15 - 23, 2017
This hilarious satire of the FRG’s economic turnaround unexpectedly assumes the form of a kind of horror musical about a woman who receives help from a team of ghosts to deal with debt she has inherited from her castle-owning father.
This hilarious satire of the FRG’s economic turnaround unexpectedly assumes the form of a kind of horror musical laden with special effects (with a score by the great composer Friedrich Hollaender, his last). Charlotte (Liselotte Pulver) inherits an old castle near Bonn—and a tremendous amount of debt. But, luckily for Charlotte, the castle is haunted by five ghosts who resolve to help dig her out of her financial hole. Their approach proves to be, shall we say, unconventional, and Charlotte comes to wonder whether this spectral assistance might be more trouble than it’s worth. The Haunted Castle is more than a whacky, entertaining curio; it’s also a sneakily political parable about Germany’s road to recovery following the fall of the Third Reich.
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