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The Trial

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An unassuming office worker is arrested and stands trial, but he is never made aware of his charges.

Panoorin Ngayon

Trailer

Cast

Orson Welles

Director

Anthony Perkins

Josef K.

Arnoldo Foà

Inspector A

Jess Hahn

Second Assistant Inspector

Billy Kearns

First Assistant Inspector

Madeleine Robinson

Mrs. Grubach

Jeanne Moreau

Marika Burstner

Maurice Teynac

Deputy Manager

NS

Naydra Shore

Irmie

Suzanne Flon

Miss Pittl

RD

Raoul Delfosse

Policeman

JR

Jean-Claude Rémoleux

Policeman

MB

Max Buchsbaum

Examining Magistrate

Carl Studer

Man in Leather

MH

Max Haufler

Uncle Max

Romy Schneider

Leni

Fernand Ledoux

Chief Clerk of the Law Court

Akim Tamiroff

Bloch

Elsa Martinelli

Hilda

PC

Pierre Cholot

Writer

Franz Kafka

Writer

Orson Welles

Writer

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8 Mga Komento

AKAMay 29, 2023

source: The Trial

striveNov 18, 2022

RHONKEFELLANov 16, 2022

Le procès

@Mrs A #30092017Nov 16, 2022

A clerk is arrested for a crime, but the police do not inform him of the charges. Welles brings his genius to the famous Kafka novel, but only proves that Kafka can't be filmed, as his novels rely too much on internal thought. After a drab and pointless prologue, the film proper starts and is initially amusing enough although the drab setting persists. The stark, cheap-looking sets are quite depressing. Given the premise of the story and the abstract ideas, perhaps this would have worked as a short film or TV show, but at two hours, it severely overstays its welcome. Adding to the absurdity, Perkins' manner of speech weirdly recalls Woody Allen.

World Wide EntertainNov 16, 2022

Never has any film reached down off its silver screen and shaken me as violently as did The Trial. I came out of my local art house quivering. Even now, as I write, I detect a hint of paranoia. I would go as far as to say Orson Welles' The Trial is the most frightening film I've ever beheld. Watching it for the first time it's safe to say I hated it. There were scenes that held me so close to the edge of madness, it was all I could do not to fly screaming out of the theater. Only afterwards, on the way home, did I realize that its ability to do so was what made the film so remarkable. Definitely a must see, but be forwarned.

Fakhar AbbasNov 16, 2022

It's always a question whether film form should attempt to reproduce literature. Is the film the author's, the director's, or both? With Orson Welles, the question is easily answered. We have Tony Perkins raging against the darkness--walking the dream landscape of a nightmare--spitting in the eye of the law--a victim yet not a victim. He is an existential juggernaut. Unlike the man who waits at the door, he already knows it's his door (he says he knows the story). He knows the door will close, but what happens on his side will be his choice. This is a strange curve to throw, a character devoid of dramatic irony, like Oedipus knowing the Oedipus story. Then there's the asexuality and monomania, the refusal of dissuasion which allows Perkins to "win." Force doesn't affect him. When he is dragged off, we aren't really sure who is doing the dragging. In the book, we know perfectly well. I wonder how Orson Welles would have handled such an arrest.

Suyoga BhattaraiNov 16, 2022

I found a lot to adore in "The Trial," but just as much to furrow my brow over. The cinematography is stunning; full of visual metaphor and gorgeous composition, it's an unyielding show of movie-making expertise. Welles plays up the bleak, "no tomorrow" nature of the exterior scenes, the structured chaos of the workplace and the hedonistic excess exhibited by the various stages of the trial itself, each to great effect. The story, though, feels too flighty and nebulous for my taste. It should come as no surprise, being a translation of a Kafka novel, that the entire picture often feels surreal and confusing. It continuously floats and sputters just beyond the grasp of understanding, like a moth delicately avoiding a set of flailing hands. The premise may have been established nicely during the slightly more straightforward opening scenes, but as the duration grows it becomes too ambitiously ambiguous for its own good.

FatimaezzahraazedineNov 16, 2022

Like many of Orson Welles films, The Trial has been imitated by other filmmakers. Patrick McGoohan borrowed part of The Trial's interiors for the famous opening of "The Prisoner", and David Lynch borrowed part of the exteriors for "Eraserhead". Neither, however, approaches the relentlessly grim paranoia of the Welle's original. I don't believe that Kafka ever published The Trial during his lifetime. In his will he left instructions that all his literary manuscripts should be destroyed after his death. In what was, perhaps, the final irony of Kafka's life, it was only the disobedience of the executor of the writer's estate that made the peculiarly paranoid world Kafka had created available to the public at all. See this film and, afterwords, try to get a peaceful night's sleep.

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