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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. Exiled from Hollywood and creatively unchained, Welles poured his ire at the studio system, the blacklist, and all forms of totalitarian oppression into this cinematic statement—a bold, personal film that he himself considered one of 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.
brilliantly capturing the oppressive paranoia of franz kafka's classic novel, orson welles' the trial is the story of the young clerk, josef k., who is arrested, tried and finally executed - all without ever knowing his crime. welles filmed this baroque work of genius in a deserted belle epoque railway station in paris. the strange setting perfectly captured the bizarre and nightmarish world of kafka's mythical totlitarian state.
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