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The Trial(Movie, 1962)

Original title: "Le Procès" (English/EN)
FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 58min | Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery
The TrialRating: 3.7/5 (with 193193 votes)
The Trial (French: Le Procès) is a 1962 drama film written and directed by Orson Welles, based on the 1925 posthumously published novel of the same name by Franz Kafka. Welles stated immediately after completing the film: "The Trial is the best film I have ever made". The film begins with Welles narrating Kafka's parable "Before the Law" to pinscreen scenes created by the artists Alexandre Alexeieff and Claire Parker. Anthony Perkins stars as Josef K., a bureaucrat who is accused of a never-specified crime, and Jeanne Moreau, Romy Schneider and Elsa Martinelli play women who become involved in various ways in Josef's trial and life. Welles plays the Advocate, Josef's lawyer and the film's principal antagonist. The Trial has grown in reputation over the years, and some critics, including Roger Ebert, have called it a masterpiece. It is often praised... ()
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About The Trial

Josef K wakes up in the morning and finds the police in his room. They tell him that he is on trial but nobody tells him what he is accused of. In order to find out about the reason for this accusation and to protest his innocence, he tries to look behind the façade of the judicial system. But since this remains fruitless, there seems to be no chance for him to escape from this Kafkaesque nightmare.

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Additional Information

Production countries: Germany, France, Italy
Shot in: Paris, Croatia
Based on: "The Trial" (find it on Amazon)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 18 languages: Czech (CS), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Persian (FA), French (FR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 04/02/1963 (World premiere: 12/21/1962)
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"El proceso"
"Процесът"
"O Processo"
"Oikeusjuttu"
"심판"
"카프카의 심판"
"Het Proces"
"O Processo"
"Процес"
Budget: 1,300,000 USD
Revenue: 998,779 USD (= 77%)
Color: Black & White (B/W)

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Other movies with this title: The Trial (AT, 1948), The Trial (BG, 1968), The Trial (JP, 1975), The Trial (1980), The Trial (DE, 1984), The Trial (GB, 1993), The Trial (US, 2010), The Trial (2011), The Trial (PH, 2014), The Trial (US, 2017), The Trial (BR, 2018), The Trial (2019), The Trial (AR/FR/IT/NO, 2023)

WatchPlayStream ID: MOVIES:8206, Added: 02/18/2018, Last updated: 03/13/2024