Past Film/Video | Classics

The Trial

(Orson Welles, 1962)

Introduced by Carmen Taleghani-Nikazm, Chair, Ohio State's Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures

New Restoration

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A man in a white shirt is looking into the camera. Behind him are two men in dark suits and dark hats.

Nov 04, 2024 4:00 PM

Film/Video Theater

Free for all audiences with ticket

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See the film the great Orson Welles considered his best on the big screen in a new restoration!

Join us in observing the 100th anniversary of the death of the incalculably influential writer Franz Kafka with a screening of one of the most ingenious adaptations of his work. Anthony Perkins stars as Josef K, an ordinary office worker who wakes one morning to detectives (or are they?) informing him he is under arrest for an unspecified crime; however, he is not taken into custody. Instead, he finds himself embroiled in an absurd and darkly comic series of twists and turns, trying to peel back the layers of a menacing bureaucracy in order to defend himself against charges that are never defined. Also starring Jeanne Moreau, Romy Schneider, and Welles himself as The Advocate. (118 mins., DCP)

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The Trial, courtesy of Rialto Pictures and StudioCanal.

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Restored in 4K by Studiocanal and the Cinémathèque Française, with the support of Chanel, from the original 35mm negative at L’Image Retrouvée.

Cosponsored by Ohio State’s Germanic Languages and Literatures and the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany (Germany on Campus Program).

FILM/VIDEO PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY
National Endowment for the Arts
Ohio Humanities

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY
Rohauer Collection Foundation

WEXNER CENTER PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY
Greater Columbus Arts Council 
The Wexner Family
Institute of Museum and Library Services 
Mellon Foundation
Every Page Foundation
Ohio Arts Council, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts
CampusParc
Nationwide Foundation
Lois S. and H. Roy Chope Fund of The Columbus Foundation
Ohio State’s Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme
The Columbus Foundation
Axium Packaging

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY
Ohio State Energy Partners
Ohio History Fund/Ohio History Connection
David Crane and Elizabeth Dang
Melissa Gilliam and William Grobman
Rebecca Perry Damsen and Ben Towle