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Bookmark this pageThe Trial (1962)
Director: Orson Welles
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From Time Out Film Guide
The blackest of Welles' comedies, an apocalyptic version of Kafka that renders the grisly farce of K's labyrinthine entrapment in the mechanisms of guilt and responsibility as the most fragmented of expressionist films noirs. Perkins' twitchy 'defendant' shifts haplessly through the discrete dark spaces of Welles' ad hoc locations (Zagreb and Paris, including the deserted Gare d'Orsay), taking no comfort from Welles' fable-spinning Advocate, before contriving the most damning of all responses to the chaos around him. The remarkable prologue was commissioned from pioneer pinscreen animators Alexandre Alexeieff and Claire Parker.Author: PT
Cast & crew
Director: Orson Welles
Producer: Alexander Salkind
Cast: Anthony Perkins, Orson Welles, Jeanne Moreau, Elsa Martinelli, Romy Schneider, Akim Tamiroff, Suzanne Flon, Madeleine Robinson, Arnoldo Foà, Fernand Ledoux, Michel Lonsdale full cast
Duration: 120 mins
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