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The Trial
Directed by Orson Welles and starring by Anthony Perkins, Arnoldo Foà, Jess Hahn, the film revolves around an unassuming office worker. He is arrested and stands trial, but he is never made aware of his charges.
1 June 1918, Berlin, Germany
23 September 1938, Vienna, Austria
23 January 1928, Paris, France
17 February 1923, Seattle, Washington, USA
7 January 1932, Beuthen, Upper Silesia, Germany [now Bytom, Slaskie, Poland]
24 January 1897, Tirlemont, Belgium
24 May 1931, Paris, France
8 February 1923, Saint-Ouen, Seine-Saint-Denis, France
28 January 1918, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, Seine [now Val-de-Marne], France
4 June 1910, Basel, Switzerland
August 19, 1933 in Beauvais, Oise, France
June 19, 2006
While not exactly Kafka, every inch of it is most certainly Welles
January 01, 2000
Above all a visual achievement, an exuberant use of camera placement and movement and inventive lighting.
October 30, 2002
The Trial is splendid to look at and teeming with ideas about the individual, society, and of course, film itself.
August 29, 2006
Welles applied his bravura directorial style to Kafka's landmark 1925 novel about Joseph K (Perkins), an office clerk who gets arrested without being told why.
February 29, 2012
Labyrinthine, stylized and tragicomic, this adaptation of Kafka's novel sees Welles at his funniest, and his most despairing.
February 29, 2012
Overwhelmingly bleak, but exciting cinema.
February 09, 2006
The blackest of Welles' comedies.
July 27, 2007
Orson Welles' bounced Czech, via Kafka. Not the masterpiece that many Welles fanatics claim, but intriguing and outrageous enough for genuine appreciation.
May 10, 2005
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.
January 01, 2000
The more Joseph tries to understand, the more impenetrable it becomes.
April 06, 2007
Though debatable as an adaptation of the Franz Kafka novel, Orson Welles's nightmarish, labyrinthine comedy of 1962 remains his creepiest and most disturbing work; it's also a lot more influential than people usually admit.
June 20, 2015
The legal system is a literal maze in Welles' visualization and the disparate locations all lead back to one another.