Overview - The Keep

Date of release

Genres

  • Horror
  • Fantasy

Runtime: 96 minutes

Homepage: The Keep

Budget

$6,000,000.00

Revenue

$3,661,757.00

Spoken Languages

  • English

Production companies

  • Name: Paramount Pictures

    Production country United States of America

  • Name: Associated Capital

    Production country

  • Name: Capital Equipment Leasing

    Production country

  • Name: Howard W. Koch Productions

    Production country United States of America

  • Name: Gene Kirkwood Productions

    Production country

Overview

Set during World War II, a German army garrison is sent to guard a mountain pass in a village in Romania's Carpathian mountains and sets up barracks in an ancient stone fortress. Two of the soldiers unwittingly release a mysterious entity that kills or corrupts those within its influence, drawing the attention of a Gestapo commander, a Jewish scholar, and a mysterious traveller.

Cast

  • Name: Scott Glenn

    Character: Glaeken Trismegestus

    Popularity: 2.1049

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  • Name: Alberta Watson

    Character: Eva Cuza

    Popularity: 0.6394

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  • Name: Jürgen Prochnow

    Character: Captain Klaus Woermann

    Popularity: 1.3733

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  • Name: Robert Prosky

    Character: Father Mihail Fonescu

    Popularity: 0.7214

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  • Name: Gabriel Byrne

    Character: Major Kaempffer

    Popularity: 1.4324

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  • Name: Ian McKellen

    Character: Dr. Theodore Cuza

    Popularity: 3.0643

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  • Name: William Morgan Sheppard

    Character: Alexandru

    Popularity: 0.3907

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  • Name: Royston Tickner

    Character: Tomescu

    Popularity: 0.1408

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