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The Trial (French: Le Procès) is a 1962 drama film written and directed by Orson Welles, based on the 1925 posthumously published novel of the same name by Franz Kafka. Welles stated immediately after completing the film: "The Trial is the best film I have ever made".
The Trial: Directed by Orson Welles. With Anthony Perkins, Arnoldo Foà, Jess Hahn, Billy Kearns. An unassuming office worker is arrested and stands trial, but he is never made aware of his charges.
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- Drama, Mystery, Thriller
- Orson Welles
- 1962-12-22
Director Orson Welles' surrealist legal drama The Trial (1962) is bizarre, hard to follow, and entertaining. The Trial is truly absurd and intense with a dreamlike quality.
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- Anthony Perkins
- Orson Welles
- Paris-Europa Productions
Shadowy with paranoia, The Trial makes masterful use of expressive cinematography and elaborate sets, marking out bureaucratic modern society as uniform yet incoherent, and inexplicably absurd. Josef K wakes up in the morning and finds the police in his room.
Anthony Perkins stars as Josef K., a bureaucrat who is accused of a never-specified crime, and Jeanne Moreau, Romy Schneider and Elsa Martinelli play women who become involved in various ways in Josef's trial and life. Welles plays the Advocate, Josef's lawyer and the film's principal antagonist.