A lowly clerk is abruptly in a vast, nameless organization awakens one morning and is arrested by the police for unnamed crimes in an unnamed country. And that’s only the start of Franz Kafka’s nightmare tale, THE TRIAL, brought to the screen in great noirsian style by Orson Welles who, typically, both directs and appears (as K's counsel). Anthony Perkins, who specialized playing twitchy types, is perfect as the doomed K.
THE TRIAL (1963)
Guilty until proven guilty
A lowly clerk is abruptly in a vast, nameless organization awakens one morning and is arrested by the police for unnamed crimes in an unnamed country. And that’s only the start of Franz Kafka’s nightmare tale, THE TRIAL, brought to the screen in great noirsian style by Orson Welles who, typically, both directs and appears (as K's counsel). Anthony Perkins, who specialized playing twitchy types, is perfect as the doomed K.
