The Trial
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Time Out says
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
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UK release:
1962
Duration:
120 mins
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Cast:
Fernand Ledoux, Arnoldo Foà, Madeleine Robinson, Suzanne Flon, Akim Tamiroff, Romy Schneider, Elsa Martinelli, Jeanne Moreau, Orson Welles, Anthony Perkins, Michel Lonsdale
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