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 (Welles) then explains, "It has been said that the logic of this story is the logic of a dream. Do you feel lost in a labyrinth? Do not look for a way out. You will not be able to find one . . . ...
Released:
1963
Rated:
NR
Length:
118 mins