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The spectacular art direction by Jean Mandaroux is superb: savor the lawyer’s candelabra-strewn apartment, the endless ocean of cubicles with adding machines humming. And the omnipresent refrain of Tomaso Albinoni’s “Adagio in G minor” adds a weird but welcome consistency.
Sep 20, 2012 · However, a French composer by the name of Jean Ledrut claimed that Meek had pinched the tune from a score he’d written for the Napoleonic film, Austerlitz. This led to a lengthy legal battle which prevented Joe Meek and the Tornados receiving any royalties from their hit.
Apr 10, 2015 · He was embroiled in a lawsuit over “Telstar” with the the French composer Jean Ledrut, who claimed Meek had stolen the melody of “Telstar” from his song “La Marche d’Austerlitz.”
- Colette Shade
Jean Ledrut photos, including production stills, premiere photos and other event photos, publicity photos, behind-the-scenes, and more.
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.
A French composer named Jean Ledrut sued Meek for plagiarism, claiming that the tune from "Telstar" had been lifted from the score of the 1960 film Austerlitz, for which Ledrut wrote the score. The suit was resolved in Meek's favor, but not until about a year after his death. >>
Plot. Josef K. is sleeping in his bedroom, in an apartment he shares with other lodgers. He is awakened when a man in a suit opens his bedroom door. Josef assumes the glib man is a policeman, but the intruder does not identify himself and ignores Josef's demand to produce police ID. Several detectives enter and tell Josef he is under open arrest.
