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.
8 August 1915, Paris, France
24 January 1897, Tirlemont, Belgium
28 January 1918, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, Seine [now Val-de-Marne], France
7 January 1932, Beuthen, Upper Silesia, Germany [now Bytom, Slaskie, Poland]
29 October 1921, Terre Haute, Indiana, USA
8 February 1923, Saint-Ouen, Seine-Saint-Denis, France
5 November 1916, Paris, France
29 October 1899, Tiflis, Russian Empire [now Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia]
24 January 1916, Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
23 January 1928, Paris, France
August 19, 1933 in Beauvais, Oise, France
June 20, 2015
The legal system is a literal maze in Welles' visualization and the disparate locations all lead back to one another.
February 29, 2012
Labyrinthine, stylized and tragicomic, this adaptation of Kafka's novel sees Welles at his funniest, and his most despairing.
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.
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.
January 01, 2000
The more Joseph tries to understand, the more impenetrable it becomes.
February 09, 2006
The blackest of Welles' comedies.
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.
February 29, 2012
Overwhelmingly bleak, but exciting cinema.
June 19, 2006
While not exactly Kafka, every inch of it is most certainly Welles
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.
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.
