Orson Welles / 奥逊·威尔斯 · 1962
The Trial
Le Procès
The opening low angle starts Josef K.'s search for an accusation. Women, books, childhood, art, and religion become adjacent sheets of past. The trial has no terminus; a changing series of falsifiers keeps it in motion.
Film details
- Original title
- Le Procès
- Director
- Orson Welles / 奥逊·威尔斯
- Year
- 1962
- Region
- France / Italy / West Germany
Reading attribution: Atlas editorial synthesis · Sources and locators
Close-reading questions
- 01How do women, books, childhood, art, and religion become adjacent sheets of past without ever delivering a final accusation?
- 02How do the court figures' recurring transformations expand the trial from an institutional site into an unlimited series of falsifiers?
Analysis and scene sources
Shots and scenes
Primary texts, scholarship, and locators
Theory coordinate: Cinema 2, Minnesota 1989, ch. 5, pp. 110, 114–15; ch. 6, pp. 139, 144–45
- 01Cinema 2: The Time-Image
Authoritative source for the standard translation, translators, ISBN, and publication date.
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Viewing gateways and editions
- Verified complete Bilibili carrier: 【4K HDR Hi-Res】审判 The Trial (1962)bilibili.comOpen film page ↗
- Page access
- Accessible when checked
- Version extent
- Recorded as a complete version
- Source type
- User-uploaded page
Edition note: Part 1 is the complete 1:58:53 feature. Parts 2–5 are four one-minute supplements.
Link checked: 2026-08-13