The trial / Alexander Salkind presents ; Paris-Europa Productions ; Hisa-Film ; Finanziaria Cinematografica Italiana ; written and directed by Orson Welles ; producers, Alexander Salkind, Michael Salkind.
Publisher:
Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2023
Description:
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1962. Wide screen (1.66:1) Anthony Perkins, Orson Welles, Jeanne Moreau, Romy Schneider, Elsa Martinelli.
Summary:
A feverishly inspired take on Franz Kafka's novel, Orson Welles₂s film 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, McCarthyism, and all forms of totalitarian oppression into this cinematic statement, one of his boldest and most personal, and the film that he himself considered 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.
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