The Trial
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 58 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 7, 2006
- Originally Released: 1962
- Label: Focus Film Entertainment
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:
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
Rating: 2/5 --
At best, it is another demonstration of the camera vers atility of Mr. Welles; at worse, a further Kafka demonstration extending to the demanding medium of the screen.
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New York Times
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
Who better to reveal the system's evil genius than Welles, the golden boy turned Hollywood martyr?
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New Yorker
...A stylistic triumph over budgetary constraints that Welles once called his best film... -- 4 out of 4 stars
USA Today
Rating: 4/5 --
Overwhelmingly bleak, but exciting cinema.
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Empire Magazine
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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