

The Trial
The Most Remarkable Motion Picture Ever Made!
Arrested for an unnamed crime, Josef K. is trapped in a surreal bureaucratic maze where justice is unknowable and guilt is assumed.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $1.3M
- Box office
- $94.2K
- Language
- English
- bureaucracy
- based on novel or book
- court
- society
- sexuality
- paranoia
- dystopia
- fascism
- surreal
- surrealism
- trial
- confusion
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalNR20 Feb 1963
- Physicalrestored version, DVD and Blu-Ray premiere19 Sept 2023
United KingdomGB
- TheatricalPG14 Nov 1963
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalPG27 May 1965
- TheatricalPGAdelaide Film Festival25 May 1993
CanadaCA
- PhysicalPGDVD premiere22 May 2012
ArgentinaAR
- Theatrical+13Mar del Plata Film Festival22 Mar 1963
- Theatrical+134 Apr 1963
BelgiumBE
- Theatrical1 Nov 1963
ChileCL
- Theatrical (limited)re-release12 Jul 2016
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical5 Sept 1963
FinlandFI
- TheatricalK-161 Nov 1963
FranceFR
- Theatrical22 Dec 1962
- PhysicalDVD27 May 2003
- TheatricalTPre-release12 Oct 2011
- PhysicalBlu-Ray23 Oct 2012
- Digital / OTTVOD1 Oct 2020
- Digital / OTT12Netflix16 Mar 2022
- TheatricalTPCannes Film Festival25 May 2022
GermanyDE
- Theatrical162 Apr 1963
- TV1620 Apr 1966
GreeceGR
- TheatricalPanorama of European Cinema18 Oct 2007
- TheatricalAthens Film Festival18 Sept 2011
- Theatricalre-release10 Jul 2020
Frequently asked questions
The Trial was released on 25 August 1962.
Audience reviews
3- C7/10
CinemaSerf
11/6/2022
There is something really quite terrifying about the scenario in which "Josef K" (a career-best performance from Anthony Perkins, I think) finds himself in this rather sinister thriller. He is awakened one morning to find the police in his bedroom. He is arrested and told he is to stand trial. For what, you might think? Well, that's what he wonders too - and every effort he makes to establish just what he is supposed…
- C10/10
CaseyReese
2/8/2023
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- B10/10
badelf
2/1/2025
The Trial: Welles's Brilliant Exposition of Guiltless Guilt Orson Welles's "The Trial" exists in a lineage of dystopian narratives that includes Kafka's original text of the same name, George Orwell's "1984", and Terry Gilliam's "Brazil" film - all works that explore bureaucratic dehumanization and the absurdity of institutional power. If the first layer of the film reveals bureaucratic absurdity and inaccessib…
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