Category: Drama
All Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Release Year: 1962
Country: France, Italy, West Germany, Yugoslavia
Runtime: 118
Rating: 4.3 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Orson Welles
Sound: Mono
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Writing by: Franz Kafka – (novel)
Orson Welles – (screenplay)
Pierre Cholot – (French dialogue adaptation) uncredited

Produced by: Michael Salkind – executive producer
Alexander Salkind – producer (uncredited)

Cast: Anthony Perkins – Josef K.
Jeanne Moreau – Marika Burstner
Romy Schneider – Leni
Elsa Martinelli – Hilda
Suzanne Flon – Miss Pittl
Orson Welles – Albert Hastler (The Advocate)
Akim Tamiroff – Bloch
Madeleine Robinson – Mrs. Grubach
Arnoldo Foà – Inspector A
Fernand Ledoux – Chief Clerk of the Law Court
Michael Lonsdale – Priest

Music: Jean Ledrut
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Plot Outline: An unassuming office worker is arrested and stands trial, but he is never made aware of his charges.
Plot: Josef K wakes up in the morning and finds the police in his room. They tell him that he is on trial but nobody tells him what he is accused of. In order to find out about the reason of this accusation and to protest his innocence, he tries to look behind the facade of the judicial system. But since this remains fruitless, there seems to be no chance for him to escape from this Kafkaesque nightmare.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
The end cast credits are read over by Orson Welles without titles

Goofs: We know about 6 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: When he notices that theres someone following them, the helicopter surveillance shot shows no one is following them.

Trivia: There are 9 entries in the trivia list – like these:

• In the novel, K is killed with the knife, but Orson Welles felt that was inappropriate with the Holocaust in recent memory, so he changed it for the film.
• Orson Welles originally wanted Jackie Gleason to play the advocate. Welles was going to play the priest, which would have made the fable in the beginning be further justified.
• Orson Welles called this his best film.