The Trial (1962 film)

The Trial is a movie German - French - Italian directed by Orson Welles and released in 1962 .

It is an adaptation of the eponymous novel by Franz Kafka .

Summary

 * 1 Overview
 * 2 Data sheet
 * 3 Distribution
 * 4 BO
 * 5 Awards
 * 5.1 Reward
 * 6 Production
 * 6.1 Casting
 * 6.2 Turning
 * 7 Themes and Background
 * 8 Notes and references
 * 9 External links

Synopsis [ edit | edit the code ]
One morning, police inspectors burst at Joseph K. They say the arrested and conduct a search. Joseph K. asked about the charges without response. Its neighborhood concerns him suspiciously, otherwise accusers. Joseph K. seeks what he may be guilty, would it be to attend a tenant clear as Miss Burstner? He finds himself in a huge and strange building for the judicial investigation where the whole procedure is cryptic: Joseph K. is lost in the intricacies of justice and no end to roam endless corridors dusty offices. Faced a judge, he learns nothing about the charges against him. That members of his family, a lawyer or Leni, an employee full of loving solicitude occur, they only exacerbate his anxiety. Joseph K. then abandoned all resistance, understanding that he will inevitably be convicted, may simply live ...

- Orson Welles, in the epilogue.

Data Sheet [ edit | edit the code ]

 * Original title: The Trial
 * English title: The Trial
 * Italian Title: Il processo
 * German title: Der Prozess
 * Director: Orson Welles
 * Asst Director: Marc Maurette , Paul Serban , Sophie Becker
 * Screenplay: Orson Welles based on the novel of Franz Kafka , The Trial ( 1925 )
 * Dialogues: Orson Welles
 * French adaptation: Pierre Cholot
 * Sets: Jean Mandaroux
 * Costumes: Helen Thibault
 * Makeup: Louis Dor
 * Photography: Edmond Richard
 * Full: Adolphe Charlet, assisted notably Robert Fraisse (uncredited)
 * Sound: Guy Villette, Julien Coutellier
 * Editing: Yvonne Martin , Orson Welles, Frederick Muller
 * Music: Jean Ledrut
 * Stills Photographer: Roger Corbeau
 * Script: Marie-Josée Kling
 * Producers: Yves Laplanche , Alexander Salkind
 * Executive Producer: Michael Salkind
 * Production Manager: Robert Florat
 * Production companies: Mercury Productions, Paris Europa Productions (France), deficit (Italy), Hisa Films GmbH (Germany)
 * Distribution companies:
 * Original Cast: UFA (Universum Film Aktien Gesellschaft, Germany), Comacico (Moroccan Cinematographic Company and Commercial)
 * Distribution France: Les Acacias, Tamasa Distribution
 * Country of origin:  Germany ,  France ,  Italy
 * Original language: English
 * Format: 35 mm - black and white - 1.66: 1 - monaural (Optiphone)
 * Genre: Drama
 * Duration: 120 minutes
 * Release dates:
 * France : 22 December 1962
 * Germany : 2 April 1963
 * CNC Classifications : all audiences, Arthouse (operating visa  26116 issued on 5 December 1962 )

Distribution [ edit | edit the code ]

 * Anthony Perkins  (VF: Pierre Vaneck ):  Joseph K.
 * Orson Welles  (VF: Jean Topart ):  lawyer
 * Romy Schneider : Leni
 * Jeanne Moreau : Miss Burstner
 * Elsa Martinelli Hilda
 * Madeleine Robinson : Ms. Grubach
 * Suzanne Flon : Miss Pittl
 * Akim Tamiroff : Bloch
 * Arnoldo Foa : Inspector
 * Fernand Ledoux : Chief Clerk
 * Jess Hahn : A sub-inspector
 * Maurice Teynac : Deputy Director
 * Michael Lonsdale : the priest
 * Naydra Shore : Irmie's cousin Joseph K.
 * Billy Kearns : a sub-inspector
 * Claudine Maugey : a little girl hunchbacked
 * Carl Studer : hangman
 * Raoul Delfosse : hangman
 * Jean-Claude Remoleux : hangman
 * Thomas Holtzmann : the student
 * Wolfgang Reichmann : Usher
 * Max Haufler : Uncle Max
 * Max Buchsbaum : Judge
 * William Chappell : Titorelli
 * Guy Grosso : a colleague of K
 * Van Doude
 * Katina Paxinou : scholarly (deleted role in the final cut)

BO [ edit | edit the code ]

 * Additional music: Albinoni Adagio said of Remo Giazotto .

Reward [ edit | edit the code ]

 * Price Méliès 1962 .

Casting [ edit | edit the code ]

 * Orson Welles himself interprets the role of the lawyer.
 * Madeleine Robinson : "I had a small stage with Anthony Perkins at the beginning of the film. [...] Despite the lack of importance of this role, it was a great time, otherwise my career, at least in my life than working with it [Welles] for which I have professionally, admiration without reservation. [...] Now, if he chose me as an actress, it was civil and cordial in its labor relations, awesome in its indications director, he was interested in nothing to the person I was. So I made ​​little mouse and spent three days in this wonderful Raminagrobis good look. It was no longer Falstaff . He did not play his superstar reputation, great ogre. He was just happy because he was doing what he loved. »

Turning [ edit | edit the code ]

 * Period of shots of March 26 to June 5, 1962 :
 * France :
 * Paris : the Gare d'Orsay during its decommissioning through the intervention of André Malraux, long before it became a museum. Plus some scenes near the cathedral Notre Dame de Paris .
 * Boulogne studios ( Boulogne-Billancourt , Hauts-de-Seine )
 * Italy : Rome .
 * Yugoslavia : Zagreb .
 * The fable called The Gate of the law (Before The Law ) uses the method of the pinscreen, developed by Alexandre Alexeieff and Claire Parker.
 * Madeleine Robinson : "Orson Welles was a huge consideration for the work of others when it is done well. Whether the actor, the traveling-man, the electrician, the makeup of the dresser or the cameraman. It is not he who contradict me: he rode a Dolly, a shooting device mounted on wheels and on a crane. It was in the "peephole" follow this very long scene in one plane between Perkins and me. He writhed against the requirements imposed Welles said Dolly. None of us realized his extreme fatigue at the end of the tenth or fifteenth taken, except Orson Welles who, in the middle of the stage, shouted: "Cut! ". Then added: "Go, Adolphe, go to your lodge rest. You can not go. It will resume when you have recovered. "For all this, I wish to intrude more to him so that he would reject me rather than ignore me. Shyness, for sure, but also foolish pride. »

Themes and Background [ edit | edit the code ]
In this adaptation of the novel by Franz Kafka and published in 1926 (posthumously), Orson Welles described by all planes more oppressive confinement of young Joseph K. in his unfounded accusation. Review of an unknown totalitarian regime.