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Josef K wakes up in the morning and finds the police in his room. They tell him that he is on trial but nobody tells him what he is accused of. In order to find out about the reason for this accusation and to protest his innocence, he tries to look behind the façade of the judicial system. But since this remains fruitless, there seems to be no chance for him to escape from this nightmare.
Cast View all
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Anthony Perkins | Josef K. |
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Arnoldo Foà | Inspector A |
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Jess Hahn | Second Assistant Inspector |
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Billy Kearns | First Assistant Inspector |
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Madeleine Robinson | Mrs. Grubach |
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Jeanne Moreau | Marika Burstner |
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Maurice Teynac | Deputy Manager |
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Naydra Shore | Irmie |
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Suzanne Flon | Miss Pittl |
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Raoul Delfosse | Policeman |
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Jean-Claude Rémoleux | Policeman |
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Max Buchsbaum | Examining Magistrate |
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Carl Studer | Man in Leather |
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Max Haufler | Uncle Max |
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Romy Schneider | Leni |
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Fernand Ledoux | Chief Clerk of the Law Court |
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Akim Tamiroff | Bloch |
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Elsa Martinelli | Hilda |
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Thomas Holtzmann | Bert the Law Student |
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Wolfgang Reichmann | Courtroom Guard |
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William Chappell | Titorelli |
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Michael Lonsdale | Priest |
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Orson Welles | Albert Hastler - The Advocate |
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Guy Grosso | Josef K.'s Colleague |
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Patricia Manning | Woman |
Crew
| Director | Orson Welles |
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| Writer | Pierre Cholot, Franz Kafka, Orson Welles | |
| Producer | Enrico Bomba, Robert Florat, Alexander Salkind, Michael Salkind | |
| Musician | Jean Ledrut | |
| Photography | Edmond Richard | |
Personal
| Quantity | 1 |
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| Seen | |
| Added Date | Nov 09, 2023 21:57:56 |
| Modified Date | Nov 10, 2023 16:51:18 |
Notes
Bought with Beth at Barnes & Nobel sale, on our anniversary 2023.
A feverishly inspired take on Franz Kafka’s novel, Orson Welles’s The Trial casts Anthony Perkins as the bewildered office drone Josef K., whose arrest for an unspecified crime plunges him into a menacing bureaucratic labyrinth of guilt, corruption, and paranoia. Exiled from Hollywood and creatively unchained, Welles poured his ire at the studio system, the blacklist, and all forms of totalitarian oppression into this cinematic statement—a bold, personal film that he himself considered one of his greatest. Dizzying camera angles, expressionistic lighting, increasingly surreal locations—Welles unleashed the full force of his visual brilliance to convey the nightmarish disorientation of a world gone mad.
4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
New audio commentary featuring film historian Joseph McBride
Filming “The Trial,” a 1981 documentary about the film’s production
Archival interviews with Welles, actor Jeanne Moreau, and director of photography Edmond Richard
Trailer
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
PLUS: An essay by author Jonathan Lethem
New cover by Nessim Higson