The Trial is the best cinema adaptation of Franz Kafka.it's also one of Orson Welles most overlooked and underrated films.i personally think it's one of his best.right from the beginning when K (Anthony Perkins) awakes to find two strange policemen? wandering around his bed chamber at five in the morning were taken on a hyper paranoid journey through the minds of both Franz Kafka and Orson Welles,with fantastically stark cinematography and unusual locations the film is genuinely un-nerving and oddly humorous in parts,especially when K attempts to explain to the two sinister policemen their is no such word as "ovular" or not to touch those "pornograph records",innocently meaning phonogram records. this was a role Antony Perkins was born to play and the assemble cast of distinguished character actors lend class to the proceedings,with Orson Welles turning in a memorable performance as the advocate.there is also a pioneering scene using pinscreen animation at the beginning of the film as a kind of prologue.....ten out of ten.
