Le Procès (The Trial) 1962 PG
Production still from The Trial 1962 / Dir: Orson Welles / Image courtesy: StudioCanal Australia / View full image
When
8.00 pm, Fri 17 Apr 2026 (118 mins)Where
Gallery of Modern Art, Cinema A
Accessibility
- Wheelchair Accessible
Admission
Free
About
‘Hailed as a masterpiece by European critics, The Trial is arguably Welles’s finest film after Citizen Kane (and with Kane, the only other film over which he exercised complete creative control). Welles’s rendition of Franz Kafka’s nightmarish story of a man arrested for a crime that is never explained to him is entirely faithful to the novel, even with the necessary transpositions made to update the action. Anthony Perkins portrays Josef K, a sensitive, ‘twitchy’ individual pursued by a repressive bureaucracy, obsessed by an undefined guilt, and bewildered by the burden of living. Replete with unforgettably baroque, expressionistic imagery, The Trial evokes a caustic vision of the modern world, where implausible events seem like everyday occurrences.’ Harvard Film Archive
PG | Adult themes
Production Credits
- Director: Orson Welles
- Script: Orson Welles
- Based on: the novel by Franz Kafka
- Cinematographer: Edmond Richard
- Editor: Fritz H Mueller
- Cast: Anthony Perkins, Orson Welles, Jeanne Moreau
- Print Source: StudioCanal Australia
- Rights: StudioCanal Australia
- Year: 1962
- Runtime: 118 minutes
- Countries: France, Italy, West Germany
- Language: English
- Colour: Black & White
- Shooting Format: 35mm
- Screening Format: 4K DCP