The Trial
Orson Welles adapts Kafka's novel as a nightmarish exploration of guilt and paranoia through an office worker's arrest for an unspecified crime.
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- When
- Saturday, October 17, 2026 · 7:00 PM
- Where
- Rice Cinema
- Tags
- free · film · arts
About
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. Dizzying camera angles, expressionistic lighting, and increasingly surreal locations convey the nightmarish disorientation of a world gone mad.
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