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The Trial

1963, Movie, NR, 118 mins

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Welles applied his bravura directorial style to Kafka's landmark 1925 novel about Joseph K (Perkins), an office clerk who gets arrested without being told why. The film opens over a series of pin-screen pictures (a technique using pins, cloth, light, and shadows created by A. Alexeieff) of a guard in front of a huge door, preventing a man from entering. For years the man awaits entrance through the door which leads to the Law, but he never gains admittance. The narrator (We... read more leave a comment
Year: 1963
Rated NR

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Cast
Anthony Perkins: Josef K
Orson Welles: Hastler
Jeanne Moreau: Miss Burstner
Romy Schneider: Leni
Elsa Martinelli: Hilda
Akim Tamiroff: Bloch

 

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