The Trial (1962 film)

The process ( original title: Le procès ) is a film by Orson Welles in 1962 It is a film adaptation of Franz Kafka's novel The Trial The. .

Action

Someone must have slandered Josef K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one morning. Josef K. However not know whose the investigating agency and the court to accuse him. He desperately struggling against the overwhelming bureaucracy of the judiciary. However, he can not figure out what the intention of this mysterious dish. Rather, he must recognize that his lawyer is closely connected to the court. In an attempt to regain some control over what happens, he gets deeper and deeper into the felt from the judiciary, law and various women who work in this threatening and oppressive maze of dependencies devotem behavior and unfathomable mountain of files. At the end of the arbitrariness of the authorities will be life-threatening for him.

Background

  • The film was shot among others in the Gare d' Orsay in Paris, in Rome and in Croatia's capital Zagreb.
  • The film had in the Federal Republic of Germany on April 2, 1963 premiere on April 20, 1966, he ran on HR III for the first time on television.

Reviews

" Film version of Orson Welles, which compresses the template to a darkly expressionist cinema nightmare. The staging is intriguing because of their optical brilliance and virtuosity alienated locales, hardly the strict, controlled narrative style of the novel is in its baroque richness of effects but fair. The 'author' Welles is always present "

"From the start it was clear that the film adaptation of Kafka's book was a risky, if not impossible task. [ ... ] Was in the magazine cinema 63: Kafka has gained nothing by this transformation, and its readers are disappointed and rightly so. The cinema is however richer with a great movie. So if you want to complain? ' "

Awards

1964: Association Française de la Critique de Cinéma - Prix Méliès ( Best Film )

France Italy 1962 in film Screenplay Alexander Salkind Film score Edmond Richard (cinematographer) Deference Hessischer Rundfunk The Magnificent Ambersons (film) The Stranger (1946 film) The Immortal Story
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