The Trial (1993 film)

The Trial
DVD cover
Directed by	David Jones
Screenplay by	Harold Pinter
Based on	The Trial 1925 novel by Franz Kafka
Produced by	Louis Marks Jan Balzer
Starring	Kyle MacLachlan Anthony Hopkins Jason Robards
Cinematography	Phil Méheux
Edited by	John Stothart
Music by	Carl Davis
Distributed by	Angelika Films
Release date	24 November 1993 (1993-11-24)
Running time	120 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Box office	$0.2 million (UK/US)

The Trial is a 1993 film made by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) based on Harold Pinter's screenplay adaptation of Franz Kafka's 1925 novel The Trial . ^[1]

Directed by David Jones and produced by Jan Balzer and Louis Marks, the film stars Kyle MacLachlan and has cameo appearances by several prominent British actors including Anthony Hopkins, Juliet Stevenson, Alfred Molina, David Thewlis, and Michael Kitchen. ^[2]

Cast

• Kyle MacLachlan as Josef K.
• Anthony Hopkins as Priest
• Jason Robards as Doctor Huld
• Juliet Stevenson as Fräulein Bürstner
• Polly Walker as Leni
• Alfred Molina as Titorelli
• David Thewlis as Franz
• Michael Kitchen as Block
• Tony Haygarth as Willem
• Douglas Hodge as Inspector
• Jirí Schwarz as Babensteiner
• David Schneider as Kullich
• Ondřej Vetchý as Kaminer
• Paul Brooke as Deputy bank manager
• Harry Burton as K's assistant
• Roger Lloyd-Pack as Stairman
• Oskar Hák as Verger
• Leon Lissek as Stairman
• Catherine Neilson as Washer woman
• Trevor Peacock as Examining magistrate
• Patrick Godfrey as Court usher
• Andrew Tiernan as Berthold
• Jiří Schmitzer as Thin defendant
• Don Henderson as Flogger
• Martin Faltyn as Clerk
• Robert Lang as K's uncle
• Jan Laibl as Chief clerk
• John Woodvine as Herr Deimen
• Jean Stapleton as Landlady (uncredited)

Production

The film was shot in Prague and Kutná Hora. ^[3]

Reception

The film grossed £58,000 in the United Kingdom. ^[4] In the United States and Canada it grossed $119,267. ^[5]

See also

• The Trial , 1962 film directed by Orson Welles.

References

1. "The Trial (1993)". BFI. Archived from the original on 10 September 2017.
2. "The Trial (1993) - David Hugh Jones | Cast and Crew | AllMovie" – via www.allmovie.com.
3. "Czech filming locations and movies filmed in the Czech Republic". www.myczechrepublic.com.
4. "UK films and co-productions". Screen International . 14 January 1994. p. 50.
5. "The Trial". Box Office Mojo.

External links

• The Trial at IMDb
• The Trial at AllMovie
• The Trial at the TCM Movie Database
• The Trial at Rotten Tomatoes