The Trial
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DVD Details
- Run Time: 1 hours, 58 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 9, 2015
- Originally Released: 1962
- Label: Reel Vault
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Anthony Perkins, Jeanne Moreau, Romy Schneider & Orson Welles | |
Performer: | Elsa Martinelli, Akim Tamiroff, Paola Mori, Michel Londsale, Arnoldo Foà, Madeleine Robinson, Suzanne Flon, William Chappell & Carl Studer | |
Directed by | Orson Welles | |
Screenwriting by | Orson Welles | |
Composition by | Jean Ledrut | |
Story by | Franz Kafka | |
Director of Photography: | Edmond Richard | |
Executive Production by | Alexander Salkind & Michael Salkind |
Entertainment Reviews:
4 stars out of 5 -- [T]his may be the best film Welles shot outside America....Overwhelmingly bleak, but exciting, riveting cinema.
Empire
Rating: 5/5 --
Out of all of Orson Welles's films, this might be the one with the most complex visual style, even the most beautiful.
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Alternate Ending
The blackest of Welles' comedies.
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Time Out
The Trial is splendid to look at and teeming with ideas about the individual, society, and of course, film itself.
Village Voice
The legal system is a literal maze in Welles' visualization and the disparate locations all lead back to one another.
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Parallax View
Perkins gives one of the best performances of his career in The Trial, aided by an outstanding array of stellar players.
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Hollywood Reporter
Labyrinthine, stylized and tragicomic, this adaptation of Kafka's novel sees Welles at his funniest, and his most despairing.
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Film4
Product Description:
THE TRIAL is Orson Welles's claustrophobic adaptation of Franz Kafka's surreal tale of fear and paranoia in a nameless society. Tinged with background jazz, filmed in shadowy black and white--mostly with direct light--THE TRIAL looks like a classic film noir, with angled close-ups and characters shrouded in mystery. Anthony Perkins stars as Josef K., a seemingly innocent young man who is arrested one morning for an unexplained crime by men who refuse to identify themselves. K., asserting his innocence, sets off on a bizarre series of confrontations with shady government agents, overwhelming faceless courtrooms, and pompous advocates who talk in riddles. His nightmare continues through narrow, dark passageways and colorless rooms where he witnesses various forms of torture and interrogation; some of what he comes upon has echoes of the Nazis and the Holocaust. And nearly everywhere he goes he stumbles over wads of paperwork (the kind that ultimately swallowed up Tuttle in Terry Gilliam's BRAZIL, a fascinating descendant of THE TRIAL). Perkins is wonderfully paranoid as he wanders aimlessly through the labyrinthine sets, which always seem to be closing in on him. THE TRIAL is an eerie nightmare of a film, one of which writer-director-costar Orson Welles was justifiably proud.
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- Sales Rank: 16,627
- UPC: 644827252428
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