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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.
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. By Michael Bayer.
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The Trial: Directed by Orson Welles. With Anthony Perkins, Arnoldo Foà, Jess Hahn, Billy Kearns. An unassuming office worker is arrested and stands trial, but he is never made aware of his charges.
The Trial. 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.
Music: Jean Ledrut. Pinscreen Sequence: Alexandre Alexeiff and Claire Parker. Full Cast and Crew. Welles' 1962 version of Kafka's novel of the same name came about through an offer from the Salkind brothers to make a film from a list of public domain properties.
Jean Ledrut. Composer: The Trial. Jean Ledrut was born on 4 July 1902 in Paris, France. Jean was a composer, known for The Trial (1962), Port of Desire (1958) and La peau d'un homme (1951). Jean died on 18 April 1982 in Paris, France.
