The Trial (1962 film)

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The Trial
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 Flag of France France
Flag of Italy Italy
Flag of Germany Germany
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 one of his best films.

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Anthony Perkins stars in the main role of Josef 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]

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  1. ^ BBC Arena interview with Orson Welles, 1985

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Films directed by 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) • The Other Side of the Wind (1972) • F for Fake (1974)
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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) · K (USA/Iran/Morocco, 2002)
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
Graphic novels
and comics

Give It Up! · The Metamorphosis · Introducing Kafka · Il Processo di Franz Kafka