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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Image Entertainment
EAN: 9786305772064
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 6305772061
Label: Image Entertainment
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Release Date: March 07, 2000
Running Time: 119 minutes
Sales Rank: 47255
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1963
Editorial Review:
Description:
Brilliantly capturing the oppressive paranoia of Franz Kafka's classic novel, Orson Welles' 'The Trial' is the story of a young clerk, Josef K., who is arrested, tried and finally executed--all without ever knowing his crime. Welles filmed this baroque work of genius in a deserted Belle Epoque railway station in Paris. The strange setting perfectly captures the bizarre and nightmarish world of Kafka's mythical totalitarian state.
Amazon.com essential video:
Orson Welles's 1962 take on Franz Kafka's nightmare comedy stars Anthony Perkins as a twitchy K, a man accused of a crime that is never specified. The story has been filmed several times over the years, but not quite with the air of noir fable Welles brings to it. Beginning with an unexpected prologue in which Welles, in voiceover, tells a haunting parable while we look at artwork by pioneer pinscreen animators Claire Parker and Alexandre Alexeieff, The Trial is one surprising and visually startling chapter after another. The sense of an unrelieved, labyrinthine passage through an incoherent world--in which a very real but determinedly unclear guilt dogs poor K--is merciless but compelling to see, and resonates profoundly with Welles's obsession with the power and nature of illusion. A cast heavy on female icons from the '60s includes Jeanne Moreau, Elsa Martinelli, and Romy Schneider. Welles favorite Akim Tamiroff is also on hand, and Welles himself plays the Advocate. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Another brilliant Wellesian vision. Harrowing, tedious and frightening
What The Trial lacks in comprehension (purposely at that) it makes up for in cinematography, set design, art direction and music. Essentially a nightmare tale, Joseph K. slowly comes to madness as his accusation for some unknown crime leads him into the abyss of a legal system, full of strange, abusive, mysterious, confusing people.
As a film I couldn't sit through it at once, I had to get up and return a couple times because the convoluted situation makes it hard to follow. This aspect is ... Read More
Rating: - Orson Welles Production
The Trial won numerous awards for the leading actor and the screenplay and director, Orson Welles. Anthony Perkins was just a kid, long before 'Psycho.' This is a most unusual psychological study of society or a strange part of same. It is very talky.
Orson Welles plays the advocate, but he is still playing Randolph Hearst as in 'Citizen Kane. In fact, one of the characters was called Kane.' Josef was arrested at his own apartment and had to stand trial before his totalitarian neighbors. ... Read More
Rating:  - Which version to buy?
I rented this fascinating film via mail order from Blockbuster Total Access a few weeks ago and enjoyed it so much that now I want to buy it. Which version should I buy?
I've come across at least *four* different versions here on Amazon.com; however, the features on the version I rented don't seem to match any of these versions. Two of the versions seem to point to the same list of customer reviews (6305772061 (The Milestone Collection) and B00004YKQD, both from 2000). The other versions don't ... Read More
Rating:  - A total fiasco
From the grotesque miscasting of the mannered lurching permanently boyish Perkins to the sophomoric pseudo-psychologizing of the badly re-interpreted text, this is definitely the biggest mistake of Welles's career. He was OK rewriting Shakespeare & B-westerns but lordy he should have kept his hands off German/Czech modernist Kafka.
I saw Jean-Louis Barrault perform the André Gide version of Kafka's The Trial with his theatrical company on Broadway in the 1950s. Whatever stylistic touches ... Read More
Rating: - Very acceptable DVD transfer of Welles' most neglected works
No doubt Welles enthusiasts will be compelled to purchase the Milestone edition of perhaps Kafka's greatest work adapted for the screen, but for the casual fan of Welles and those interested in Tony Perkins' early film work before he was so unfortunately typecast after Hitch's "Psycho," this film is a highly successful realization of the nighmarish world only Kafka could envision. About a man who is arrested, tried and eventually executed without even knowing his crime, Perkins is memorable as Josef K, the timid ... Read More
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