The Trial
- Crime
- Drama
- Mystery
Arrested for an unnamed crime, Josef K. is trapped in a surreal bureaucratic maze where justice is unknowable and guilt is assumed.
- Directed by
- Orson Welles
- Written by
- Orson Welles
- Based on
- Franz Kafka
Cast
Anthony Perkins- Romy Schneider
- Orson Welles
- Akim Tamiroff
- Jeanne Moreau
- Elsa Martinelli
- Suzanne Flon
- Madeleine Robinson
- Max Haufler
- Max Buchsbaum
- Arnoldo Foà
- Jess Hahn
Keywords
- based on novel or book
- dystopia
- courtroom
- surrealism
- interrogation
- uncle nephew relationship
- church
- anxious
- paranoia
- discrimination
- power relations
- oppression
- society
- trial
- court
- sexuality
- hierarchy
- confusion
- bureaucracy
- fascism
- surreal
- guilty conscience
- office worker
- painter as artist
- accusation
- oneiric
- judgment
- judicial system
- legal system
- hegemony
Citizen Kane
Touch of Evil
Macbeth
The Lady from Shanghai
Othello
The Magnificent Ambersons