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THE TRIAL

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By Orson WELLES

TAMASA DISTRIBUTION - as DISTR Theatrical

Drama - Completed 1962

Welles claimed that THE TRIAL was the best film he ever made. Rich with Welles’ trademark style, THE TRIAL is a visual feast. The icy black and white photography strikingly depicts the spider-and-fly games of an ineffectual man struggling against his inescapable fate.

- Year of production
- 1962
- Genres
- Drama, Fantasy, Crime
- Countries
- FRANCE, ITALY
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Budget
- N/A
- Duration
- 118 mn
- Director(s)
- Orson WELLES
- Writer(s)
- Franz KAFKA, Pierre CHOLOT
- Cast
- Anthony PERKINS, Jeanne MOREAU, Romy SCHNEIDER
- ISAN
- 0000-0000-4DB6-0000-E-0000-0000-W
- EIDR
- 10.5240/DA70-9388-3256-5F34-A3F7-P
- Producer(s)
- Alexander SALKIND (Paris Europa Production), Michael SALKIND (Paris Europa Production)
- Synopsis
- Based on the influential Franz Kafka novel, THE TRIAL is a paranoid masterpiece directed by Orson Welles (Citizen Kane, Touch of Evil). Josef K (Anthony Perkins – Psycho) is arrested, but has no idea what crime he is accused of. In order to find out what offence he is meant to have committed, and to protest his innocence, Josef K must go through the machinations of the judicial system, but he soon finds himself trapped in a dehumanised nightmare.