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30 March 1963 (Italy)
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An unassuming office worker is arrested and stands trial, but he is never made aware of his charges. full summary | add synopsis
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1 win
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THIS IS THE BEST MOVIE EVER MADE
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | 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 |
| Max Buchsbaum | ... | Examining Magistrate |
| Max Haufler | ... | Uncle Max |
| Maurice Teynac | ... | Deputy Manager |
| Wolfgang Reichmann | ... | Courtroom Guard |
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118 min | USA:107 min (TV version : 1984)
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1.66 : 1 more
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Mono (Optiphone) (source format)
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Canada:PG (Ontario) |
Finland:K-12 (re-rating: 1981) |
Finland:K-16 (original rating: 1963) |
Portugal:M/12 |
Argentina:13 |
Australia:PG |
New Zealand:PG |
Norway:16 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:PG |
West Germany:16 (bw)
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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.
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Narrator: Before the law, there stands a guard. A man comes from the country, begging admittance to the law. But the guard cannot admit him. May he hope to enter at a later time? That is possible, said the guard. The man tries to peer through the entrance. He'd been taught that the law was to be accessible to every man...
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Narrator: Before the law, there stands a guard. A man comes from the country, begging admittance to the law. But the guard cannot admit him. May he hope to enter at a later time? That is possible, said the guard. The man tries to peer through the entrance. He'd been taught that the law was to be accessible to every man...
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Adagio in G
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Anthony Perkins realizes the paranoia of Joseph K, charged with an unnamed crime by uncooperative detectives and pursued by victims, executioners, and young girls through a nightmarish European city which is darker than the blackest things in horror of film noir. The terrifying,thought provoking, dreamily real picture could only have been brought to us by Orson Welles. He comes to us not only as a director, but again as an actor. Welles plays a bedridden lawyer in a cavernous house and enters in the cloud of smoke from a cigar. Romy Shneider shines as his nursemaid who seduces the lawyers clients like K and Block(Akim Tamiroff). Welles updated Kafka's THE TRIAL to the age after the holocaust and the atomic bomb. This is aided by the locations Welles was forced to shoot in after funding was cut. Edmund Richard masterfully moves his camera through the ruined interiors of a decaying industrial Europe. K's dillema is hightened by the cavernous abandoned railroad station. The picture is genius from the pinscreen opening to the spellbinding climax. Fans of THE THIRD MAN should appreciate the final scenes. Welles's best and therefore the best there is.