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Directed by Orson Welles and starring by Anthony Perkins, Arnoldo Foà, Jess Hahn, the film revolves around an unassuming office worker. He is arrested and stands trial, but he is never made aware of his charges.
At best, it is another demonstration of the camera vers atility of Mr. Welles; at worse, a further Kafka demonstration extending to the demanding medium of the screen.
May 10, 2005
TV Guide
Welles applied his bravura directorial style to Kafka's landmark 1925 novel about Joseph K (Perkins), an office clerk who gets arrested without being told why.
Orson Welles' bounced Czech, via Kafka. Not the masterpiece that many Welles fanatics claim, but intriguing and outrageous enough for genuine appreciation.
July 27, 2007
Chicago Sun-Times
Above all a visual achievement, an exuberant use of camera placement and movement and inventive lighting.
Though debatable as an adaptation of the Franz Kafka novel, Orson Welles's nightmarish, labyrinthine comedy of 1962 remains his creepiest and most disturbing work; it's also a lot more influential than people usually admit.