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Based on Frank Kafka's novel, The Trial tells the story of Joseph K., a conscientious bank official who is awakened one morning by police and arrested on charges that are never made clear. His attempts to learn the reason for the accusation and to protest his innocence, take him into the world of a bureaucratic and "Kafkaesque" nightmare.

Orson Welles made the film in Yugoslavia and in Paris at the empty train station, Gare D'Orsay. He thought the film had very funny moments and loved making it, even though the producers, Alexander and Michael Salkind, who later made Superman, ran out of money and Orson began financing the actors' salaries out of his own pocket. Almost any actor friend of Orson's would work for him for him for scale because they loved him and working with him. There was never a greater experience for anyone than working with Orson Welles. An experimental filmmaker, a magician, a scenic designer, a writer, a producer ... he inspired everyone to do their best. You felt that you were making film history.

Every one of Orson's films is unique and with a style like no other director's. Orson was clever in the way that he set himself up as a film star in Citizen Kane. He was able to work for the rest of his life as a leading actor with his name meaning something as a commercial asset. In most of the films he directed, he played the leading role, meaning that the film had a "name" attached to it.

Orson told me that he was acting in a film in France and that the Salkinds arrived on the set in a taxi from Paris. They gave him a list of twenty projects that they had in mind for Orson to direct. All of the film projects were in the public domain. Orson chose Kafka's The Trial. After the deal was made between Orson and the Salkinds, the Salkinds asked to borrow some money for the taxi fare back to Paris.

.....Gary Graver

The Trial (Le Proces)

1962. Black and white.120 minutes. Production: Paris Europa/HISA/FI-C-IT. Screenplay by Orson Welles, based on the novel by Franz Kafka. Directed by Orson Welles. Camera: Edmond Richard. Editing: Yvonne Martin. Sound: Guy Villette. Music: Jean Ledrut. Special effects: Denise Baby.

Cast: Anthony Perkins, Orson Welles, Jeanne Moreau, Akim Tamiroff, Elsa Martinelli, Romy Schneider.