TRIAL - BLU-4K-1963-ORSON WELLES-CRITERION COLLE

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• Release Year: 1962
• Genre: Drama; Film-Noir; Mystery; Suspense/Thriller
• Plot: A feverishly inspired take on Franz Kafka's novel, Orson Welles's The Trial casts Anthony Perkins as the bewildered office drone Josef K., whose arrest for an unspecified crime plunges him into a menacing bureaucratic labyrinth of guilt, corruption, and paranoia. Exiled from Hollywood and creatively unchained, Welles poured his ire at the studio system, the blacklist, and all forms of totalitarian oppression into this cinematic statement—a bold, personal film that he himself considered one of his greatest. Dizzying camera angles, expressionistic lighting, increasingly surreal locations—Welles unleashed the full force of his visual brilliance to convey the nightmarish disorientation of a world gone mad.
• Cast: Anthony Perkins; Arnoldo Foà; Jess Hahn; Billy Kearns; Madeleine Robinson; Jeanne Moreau; Maurice Teynac; Naydra Shore; Suzanne Flon; Raoul Delfosse; Jean-Claude Rémoleux; Max Buchsbaum; Carl Studer; Max Haufler; Romy Schneider; Fernand Ledoux; Akim Tamiroff; Elsa Martinelli; Thomas Holtzmann; Wolfgang Reichmann; William Chappell; Michael Lonsdale; Orson Welles; Guy Grosso; Patricia Manning; Paola Mori; Peter Sallis; Pierre Cholot; Franz Kafka
• Director: Orson Welles
• Runtime: 1:58
• Company: Astor Pictures Corporation, Paris-Europa Productions, Hisa-Films, Finanziaria Cinematografica Italiana (FICIT), Globus-Dubrava, StudioCanal, Janus Films, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie