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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.
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.
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 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.
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.
Production designer Jean Mandaroux makes a huge warehouse office, tight courtroom, and strange sets to feel even more overbearing. Composer Jean Ledrut's melancholic organ music for The...
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Jean Ledrut photos, including production stills, premiere photos and other event photos, publicity photos, behind-the-scenes, and more.
