The Trial
by Orson Welles
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Actor: Anthony Perkins, Elsa Martinelli, Jeanne Moreau, Romy Schneider, Suzanne FlonDirector: Orson Welles
Brand: Image Entertainment
Writer: Orson Welles
Cinematographer: Edmond Richard
Editor: Frederick Muller
Producer: Alexander Salkind
Producer: Michael Salkind
Writer: Franz Kafka
Writer: Pierre Cholot
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Black & White, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 118 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-03-07
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Image Entertainment
Summary of The Trial
Brilliantly capturing the oppressive paranoia of Franz Kafka's classic novel, Orson Welles' "The Trial" is the story of a young clerk, Josef K., who is arrested, tried and finally executed--all without ever knowing his crime. Welles filmed this baroque work of genius in a deserted Belle Epoque railway station in Paris. The strange setting perfectly captures the bizarre and nightmarish world of Kafka's mythical totalitarian state.Orson Welles's 1962 take on Franz Kafka's nightmare comedy stars Anthony Perkins as a twitchy K, a man accused of a crime that is never specified. The story has been filmed several times over the years, but not quite with the air of noir fable Welles brings to it. Beginning with an unexpected prologue in which Welles, in voiceover, tells a haunting parable while we look at artwork by pioneer pinscreen animators Claire Parker and Alexandre Alexeieff, The Trial is one surprising and visually startling chapter after another. The sense of an unrelieved, labyrinthine passage through an incoherent world--in which a very real but determinedly unclear guilt dogs poor K--is merciless but compelling to see, and resonates profoundly with Welles's obsession with the power and nature of illusion. A cast heavy on female icons from the '60s includes Jeanne Moreau, Elsa Martinelli, and Romy Schneider. Welles favorite Akim Tamiroff is also on hand, and Welles himself plays the Advocate. --Tom Keogh
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