The Trial (1993 film)

The Trial
DVD cover
Directed by	David Jones
Produced by	Louis Marks Jan Balzer
Written by	Harold Pinter Franz Kafka (novel)
Starring	Kyle MacLachlan Anthony Hopkins Jason Robards Juliet Stevenson Alfred Molina David Thewlis Michael Kitchen
Music by	Carl Davis
Cinematography	Phil Méheux
Edited by	John Stothart
Distributed by	Angelika Films
Release dates	24 November 1993 (1993-11-24)
Running time	120 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Box office	$119,267^[1]

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.

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.

The film was shot in Prague and Kutná Hora.

Cast

Kyle MacLachlan as Josef K.
Anthony Hopkins as Priest
Jason Robards as Doctor Huld
Juliet Stevenson as Fräulein Burstner
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
Valérie Kaplanová as Old woman
Jirí Ded as Old man
Jirí Vavricek as Read beard
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

Václav Jakoubek as Small boy
Patrick Godfrey as Court usher
Andrew Tiernan as Berthold
Jirí Schmitzer as Thin defendant
Don Henderson as Flogger
Martin Faltyn as Clerk
Robert Lang as K's uncle
Jan Laibl as Chief clerk
Linda Rybová as Titorelli's girl (credited as Lynda Rybova)
Sabina Remundova as Titorelli's girl
Lucie Bartonova as Titorelli's girl
Klára Jandová as Titorelli's girl
Nicolle Gavlasova as Titorelli's girl
Julie Herrerova as Titorelli's girl
John Woodvine as Herr Deimen
Reniero Compostella as Signor Rossi
Lena Birková as Bookstall woman
Karel Augusta as Executioner
Petr Drozda as Executioner
Vladimir Tausinger as Policeman
Petr Skarke as Man in the window
Jean Stapleton as Landlady (uncredited)

References

↑ http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=trial.htm

External links

The Trial (1993) at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by David Jones

Look Back in Anger (1980) Betrayal (1983) 84 Charing Cross Road (1987) The Devil's Disciple (1987) The Christmas Wife (1988) Jacknife (1989) The Trial (1993) And Then There Was One (1994) Is There Life Out There? (1994) Time to Say Goodbye? (1997) The Confession (1999) A Christmas Carol (1999)

Adaptations of works by Franz Kafka

Films	The Trial (1962) The Castle (1968) The Penal Colony (1970) Klassenverhältnisse (1984) Kafka (1991) The Trial (1993) Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life (1993) The Castle (1994) The Castle (1997) K (2002) Metamorphosis (2012)

Literature	Kafka Americana

Comics	Give It Up! The Metamorphosis Introducing Kafka

Harold Pinter

Plays	Ashes to Ashes The Basement Betrayal The Birthday Party The Caretaker Celebration The Collection The Dumb Waiter The Dwarfs Family Voices The Homecoming The Hothouse A Kind of Alaska Landscape The Lover Moonlight Monologue Mountain Language A Night Out Night School No Man's Land Old Times One for the Road Party Time Remembrance of Things Past (with Di Trevis) The Room Silence A Slight Ache Tea Party Victoria Station Voices (with James Clarke)

Dramatic sketches	Apart From That Applicant The Black and White Dialogue for Three God's District Interview Last to Go The New World Order Night Precisely Press Conference Request Stop, Special Offer That's All That's Your Trouble Trouble in the Works

Screenplays	Accident Betrayal The Birthday Party The Caretaker The Comfort of Strangers The Compartment The Dreaming Child The French Lieutenant's Woman The Go-Between The Handmaid's Tale The Heat of the Day The Homecoming Langrishe, Go Down The Last Tycoon Lolita Party Time The Proust Screenplay The Pumpkin Eater The Quiller Memorandum The Remains of the Day Reunion The Servant Sleuth The Tragedy of King Lear The Trial Turtle Diary Victory

Related articles	Works Bibliography Characteristics Honours and awards Relationship with academia The Harold Pinter Archive in the British Library Harold Pinter and politics Art, Truth and Politics Pinter's People

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