The Trial (1962 film)

The Trial is a 1962 film directed by Orson Welles, who also wrote the screenplay based on the novel of the same name by Franz Kafka. Filmed in Europe, Welles stated immediately after completing the film The Trial is the best film I have ever made. The film begins with Welles narrating Kafkas parable Before the Law to pinscreen scenes created by the artist Alexandre Alexeieff. Anthony Perkins stars as Josef K., a bureaucrat who is accused of a neverspecified crime, and Jeanne Moreau, Romy Schneider, and Elsa Martinelli play women who become involved in various ways in Josefs trial and life. Welles plays the Advocate, Josefs lawyer and the films principal antagonist.

Josef K. Anthony Perkins is sleeping in his bedroom, in an apartment he shares with other lodgers. He is awakened when a man in a suit opens his bedroom door. Josef assumes the glib man is a policeman, but the intruder does not identify himself and ignores Josefs demand to produce police ID. Several detectives enter and tell Josef he is under open arrest. In another room Josef K. sees three coworkers from his place of employment they are there to provide evidence regarding some unstated crime. The police refuse to inform Josef K. of his misdeeds, or if he is even being charged with a crime, and they do not take him into custody.After the detectives leave, Josef converses with his landlady, Mrs. Grubach Madeleine Robinson, and neighbor, Miss Burstner Jeanne Moreau, about the strange visit. Later he goes to his office, where his supervisor thinks he has been having improper relations with his teenaged female cousin. That evening, Josef attends the opera, but is abducted from the theater by a police inspector Arnoldo Fo and brought to a courtroom, where he attempts in vain to confront the stillunstated case against him. ........

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