The Wish To Be a Red Indian: Kafka and Cinema 2024 / Le procès / France, Italy, Germany 1962
Orson Welles had in mind a breathtaking production design for his adaptation of one of the most famous novels of the 20th century, Franz Kafka’s The Trial. However, when the producers refused to stump up the money he needed, this uncrowned king among filmmakers decided that the tale of the trial of Josef K. would be nothing short of one huge nightmare, and he shot various takes and scenes in different cities (from Zagreb via Paris to Rome) in a magical, black-and-white veil of shadows and reflections. The atmosphere combining the repulsive and the comic would certainly have appealed to Kafka. “The point is not whether K. is guilty or innocent,” states Orson Welles. “It’s an attitude towards guilt and innocence – that’s the point of the story.”
Lorenzo Esposito
119 min / Black & white, DCP
Director Orson Welles
/ Screenplay Orson Welles, Pierre Cholot na motivy románu Proces / based on the novel The Trial by Franz Kafka
/ Dir. of Photography Edmond Richard
/ Music Jean Ledrut
/ Sound Guy Villette
/ Editor Yvonne Martin, Frederick Muller, Orson Welles
/ Art Director Jean Mandaroux
/ Producer Enrico Bomba, Robert Florat, Alexander Salkind, Michael Salkind
/ Production Paris-Europa Productions
/ Coproduction Hisa-Film, Finanziaria Cinematografica Italiana (FICIT), Globus-Dubrava
/ Cast Anthony Perkins, Elsa Martinelli, Suzanne Flon, Romy Schneider, Jeanne Moreau, Jess Hahn, Fernand Ledoux, Akim Tamiroff, Michael Lonsdale
/ Sales Tamasa Distribution
Orson Welles (1915, Kenosha, Wisconsin – 1985, Los Angeles). Selected filmography: Citizen Kane (1941), The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), The Lady from Shanghai (1947), Othello (1952), Touch of Evil (1958), The Trial (Le Procès, 1962), Chimes at Midnight (Campanadas a medianoche, 1965), Don Quixote (Don Quijote de Orson Welles, 1992), The Other Side of the Wind (2018).
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