Trial, The (Le Procès)

Date: 1962
Director: Orson Welles
Production Company: Paris-Europa Productions, Hisa-Film, Finanziaria Cinematografica Italiana (FICIT)

Stars: Anthony Perkins, Jeanne Moreau, Elsa Martinelli, Suzanne Flon, Madeleine Robinson, Romy Schneider
Location(s): Lombardy, Paris, Rome, Zagreb (Yugoslavia)

Region(s): France, Italy, Rest Of The World

Storyline:

A humble clerk is arrested to await trial but is never made aware of his charges.

Additional Information:

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Waking to find a stranger in his apartment, Josef K (Anthony Perkins) tells his landlady Mrs. Grubach that the People searching through his neighbour Miss Bürstner's belongings are not his friends.

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Without feeling, Inspector A (Arnoldo Foà) tells K that he's attracting attention before being asked "What's the charge?"

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Looking down from the balcony, the Inspector sees Marika Bürstner arrive home.

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Returning home from work, K comes across Miss Pittl (Suzanne Flon) dragging Miss Bürstner's trunk from the apartment block. Facing Ulica Grada Vukovara 240 in Zagreb.

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The camera tracks with the pair as Miss Pittl continues to struggle after declining K's offer of help. Designed by Ivo Geršic, Ulica Grada Vukovara 240 stands to the extreme left and Ulica Grada Vukovara 238 is on the right while flats on Ulica Pile I can be seen in the distance. A supermarket now covers this land.

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K takes the trunk from Miss Pittl who explains that Miss Bürstner had no choice but to move. Ulica Grada Vukovara 238 stands on the left as the road Ulica Grada Vukovara lies to the right.

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The two reach the main road. The corner of Avenija Marina Držica and Ulica Grada Vukovara.

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K attends the theatre where a note is passed to him by Hilda (Elsa Martinelli). Inside the Croatian National Theatre on Trg Republike Hrvatske in Zagreb.

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Leaving the auditorium, K finds Inspector A waiting outside.

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K follows the Inspector from the theatre, through dereliction and decaying buildings to where two Policeman (Raoul Delfosse and Jean-Claude Rémoleux) are waiting.

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Inspector A passes K a form for the Interrogation Committee that has been completed in his name.

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On his way to the Interrogation Committee, the Defendant passes through a crowd of silent, half undressed Men and Women, many with numbers strung around their necks.

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K addresses the Interrogation Committee.

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Returning to work, K walks through the huge open plan office to the clatter of hundreds of typewriters. IMDb locates this as Zagreb Fair at 15 Avenija Dubrovnik, Zagreb.

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K confronts his work Colleagues, the three who were going through Miss Bürstner's belongings in her flat. One of the pavilions at Zagrebacki Velesajam, an exhibition site in Zagreb.

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Taken by Uncle Max to speak about his case with advocate Albert Hastler, K runs into a downpour of rain when he leaves the chambers.

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The Courtroom Guard (Wolfgang Reichmann) leads K to the Examining Magistrate's door . . . but he doesn't have the key. Gare d'Orsay on Rue de la Légion d'Honneur in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. The panelled doors can also be seen in 'The Marseille Contract' along with other views of the station.

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When asked who they are, the Courtroom Guard points out the Accused standing outside the Law Court Offices . . . waiting. Opening in 1900, Gare d'Orsay closed to main line traffic in 1939 with suburban trains continuing to run until 1958.

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Finding that the Accused believe that he's a judge, K asks the Courtroom Guard how he can get out. Gare d'Orsay on Rue de la Légion d'Honneur. After closure, the terminus was repurposed and reopened in 1986 as Musée d'Orsay.

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Fighting his way between condemned Men awaiting trial, through a maze of cabinets and filing shelves, K appears in the open air. Within the Corte Suprema di Cassazione on Piazza Cavour, Roma with the statue of Roman lawyer Quintus Hortensius Hortalus to the left and 3rd century advisor Giulio Paolo on the right.

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Composing himself, K walks from the courtyard. Inside the entrance of the Supreme Court of Cassation in Rome.

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Outside, K walks away with his cousin Irmie (Naydra Shore) who has been looking for him. Facing the Corte Suprema di Cassazione on Piazza Cavour, Roma.

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Pestering him for news, Irmie tells her K that she has to let her father Max know how the case is progressing.

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After telling Irmie that he's thinking of dismissing the Advocate, K tells the teenager to go back to school. Pucko otvoreno ucilište, the People's Open University, dating from 1961 at 68 Ulica Grada Vukovara in Zagreb with buildings on Ulica Ivana Lucica in the right distance.

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Watching K go into work, Irmie says "so long" before turning to leave. According to Wikipedia and the website Lo Specchio Scuro, filming this for sequence also took place in Milan.

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Setting out to find court painter Titorelli, K leaves Hastler after dispensing with his services.

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Leaving Titorelli who proves to be unhelpful, K turns when hearing his name called out.

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Identifying himself to a Priest (Michael Lonsdale) inside a church, K is told that his case is going badly and his guilt is assumed.

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After Hastler appears and shows him scenes from a pinscreen slide show featuring a man who seeks the law, K walks from the church. Facing Zagreb Cathedral on Kaptol in Zagreb,

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K comes face to face with the two Policemen he saw earlier.

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The Policeman take hold of K and march him away.

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In silence, K is taken through a darkened landscape.

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Footsteps echo as the three men turn a corner. A reversed image of the corner of Ulica Antuna Gustava Matoša and Ulica Josipa Freudenreicha.

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Without a struggle, K lets the Policemen lead him . . . . . Opaticka Ulica seen from Kamenita Ulica.

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. . . through quiet streets . . . Looking west along Kamenita Ulica in Zagreb with the junction formed by Ulica Jurja Habdelica and Opaticka Ulica crossing the centre. The archway can also be seen in 'Sophie's Choice' made 20 years later.