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Orson Welles' The trial [videorecording]. Trial - [London] : Warner Bros. Entertainment : Studio Canal, 2004. - 1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in.

Title from disc label. Videodisc release of the 1963 motion picture. Based on the novel by Franz Kafka.

Writer and director, Orson Welles ; producer Alexandre Salkind ; music Jean Ledrut & Tomaso Albioni ; photography, Edmond Richard ; music, Jean Ledrut, Tomaso Albinoni. Writer and director, Orson Welles ; producer Alexandre Salkind ; music Jean Ledrut & Tomaso Albioni ; photography, Edmond Richard ; music, Jean Ledrut, Tomaso Albinoni.

Anthony Perkins, Jeanne Moreau, Orson Welles, Elsa Martinelli, Suzanne Flon, Madelaine Robinson, Romy Schneider.

Orson Welles' stunning film version of Franz Kafka's enigmatic nightmare novel stars Anthony Perkins as Josef K, an office clerk who awakes one morning to find himself arrested without ever knowing the crime of which he is accused. Victimised by a faceless and absurd bureaucracy, an incredulous K faces his impending trial.


DVD ; Region 2.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Arrest --Drama.
Prosecution --Drama.
Authoritarianism --Drama.

LC Class. No.: PT2621.A25 / P713

Dewey Class. No.: 791.4372