Director: Orson Welles
Cast: Anthony Perkins, Jeanne Moreau, Romy Schneider, Orson Welles, Akim Tamiroff,
Plot: 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 nightmare.
Orson Welles’s The Trial (1962): Criterion Blu-ray review
Made between Touch of Evil (1958) and Chimes at Midnight (1965), Orson Welles adaptation of Franz Kafka’s The Trial (1962) has long had a lesser reputation than the filmmaker’s better-known films; Criterion’s new 4K restoration […]