Further Details

Title: The Trial (Criterion Collection)
Condition: New
Format: Blu-ray
EAN: 0715515287012
Release Date: 03/10/2023
Country/Region of Manufacture: USA
Studio: The Criterion Collection
Language: English
Director: Orson Welles
Actor: Anthony Perkins, Jeanne Moreau, Romy Schneider, Elsa Martinelli, Suzanne Flon
Rating: MPAA Not Rated
No Of Discs: 1
Region Code: Blu-ray: B (Europe, AU, NZ, Africa...)
Description: 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.

BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES


* New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
* New audio commentary featuring film historian Joseph McBride
* Filming “The Trial,” a 1981 documentary about the film’s production
* Archival interviews with Welles, actor Jeanne Moreau, and director of photography Edmond Richard
* Trailer
* English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
* PLUS: An essay by author Jonathan Lethem
Release Year: 2023

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