Product Description

"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 being accused of. In order to protect his innocence, he tries to look behind the facade of the judicial system. Unfortunately, this is a fruitless and unrealistic goal, leading to a tortuous series of events."

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #55513 in DVD
• Released on: 2002-02-02
• Rating: Unrated
• Format: NTSC
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 118 minutes

Customer Reviews

Delivers The Goods
It was only after I purchased this that I realized a copyright claim was never made on this film and it has always been in the public domain, meaning there are innumerable "bootlegs" floating around of inferior quality of which this is one, whereas in 2000 Milestone Film & Video released a restored version based on the original negative. While this DVD delivers the goods, the quality is pretty bad, there's not even a proper menu to the film, the sound and picture quality are very average and there are no extra features whatsoever. Considering this is just an inferior dub for which the DVD maker would have had to pay $0 in licensing fees, the list price of $15.99 is hefty indeed. I'd seek out the restored original and stay away from bootlegged copies like this

Another brilliant Wellesian vision. Harrowing, tedious and frightening
What The Trial lacks in comprehension (purposely at that) it makes up for in cinematography, set design, art direction and music. Essentially a nightmare tale, Joseph K. slowly comes to madness as his accusation for some unknown crime leads him into the abyss of a legal system, full of strange, abusive, mysterious, confusing people.
As a film I couldn't sit through it at once, I had to get up and return a couple times because the convoluted situation makes it hard to follow. This aspect is surely purposeful, Welles is a master of storytelling and images, and the production itself proves amazing.
I would highly recommend this for it's adaptation of Kafka's posthumous story, beautiful and horrible direction, cinematography, set and art direction and music.

THINGS TO COME
MAYBE THIS MOVIE DIDN'T MAKE MUCH SINCE WHEN IT WAS REVIEWED,BUT TODAY
IT IS THINGS TO COME.