The Trial (1962 film)

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The Trial
Image:The Trial .jpg
Directed by	Orson Welles
Produced by	Alexander Salkind
Written by	Orson Welles Franz Kafka (novel)
Starring	Anthony Perkins Orson Welles Jeanne Moreau Romy Schneider Akim Tamiroff Elsa Martinelli
Cinematography	Edmond Richard
Release date(s)	December 21, 1962 (France)
Running time	118 min
Country	Image:Flag of France.svg France Image:Flag of SFR Yugoslavia.svg Yugoslavia
Language	English
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The Trial (also known as Le Procès) is a 1962 film directed by Orson Welles, based on the novel by Franz Kafka. It stars Anthony Perkins. Along with Chimes at Midnight, Welles considered this his best film.

Contents 1 Details 2 See also 3 External links 4 References

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Anthony Perkins stars in the main role of Joseph K. The rest of the cast includes Jeanne Moreau, Suzanne Flon, Romy Schneider, Fernand Ledoux, Akim Tamiroff, Michael Lonsdale, Elsa Martinelli and Welles himself. Like many Welles films, The Trial was made outside the studio system with a very low budget and a haphazard shooting schedule. It was filmed mostly in the disused Parisian railway station, the Gare d'Orsay, with a French crew. Despite the problems he encountered during the project, The Trial is notable for being one of the few films other than Citizen Kane over which Welles had full control, and which was released in the form he intended. He was offered full control by the Salkind family, as long as he adapted an out-of-copyright literary masterpiece and made it in Yugoslavia. The deal collapsed in mid-shooting, and Welles had to relocate the picture to Paris.

Welles took great liberties with Kafka's novel and said he was more interested in 'capturing the essence of Kafka' than making a scrupulous interpretation of the book. ^[1]

[edit] See also

• Trial movies

[edit] External links

• Discussion and production notes at Rotten Tomatoes
• The Trial at the Internet Movie Database
• The Twisted Beauty of The Trial

[edit] References

1. ^ BBC Arena interview with Orson Welles, 1985

v • d • e The films of Orson Welles
Citizen Kane (1941) • The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) • The Stranger (1946) • The Lady from Shanghai (1947) • Macbeth (1948) • Othello (1952) • Mr. Arkadin (1955) • Touch of Evil (1958) • The Trial (1962) • Chimes at Midnight (1965) • The Immortal Story (1968) • F for Fake (1974) • The Other Side of the Wind (2008)

v • d • e Adaptations of works by Franz Kafka
Feature films	The Trial (USA, 1962) · Class Relations (adaptation of Amerika; Germany, 1984) · Kafka (USA, 1991) · The Trial (USA, 1993) · The Castle (Germany, 1997)
Short films	Metamorphosis (Germany, 1975) · Metamorphosis (Sweden, 1976) · The Metamorphosis of Mr. Samsa (Canada, 1977) · Metamorphosis (UK, 1987) · Franz Kafka (Poland, 1992) · Description of a Struggle (USA, 1993) · Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life (UK, 1993) · Zoetrope (adaptation of "In the Penal Colony"; USA, 1999) · The Hunger Artist (USA, 2002) · Metamorphosis (Russia, 2002) · Human Body (adaptation of "A Country Doctor"; Germany, 2004)
Literature	Kafka Americana
Graphic novels and comics	Give It Up! · The Metamorphosis · Introducing Kafka · Il Processo di Franz Kafka

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