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 Polly Walker Alfred Molina 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
The Trial at Rotten Tomatoes

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	The Room (1957) The Birthday Party (1957) The Dumb Waiter (1957) A Slight Ache (1958) The Hothouse (1958) The Caretaker (1959) A Night Out (1959) Night School (1960) The Dwarfs (1960) The Collection (1961) The Lover (1962) Tea Party (1964) The Homecoming (1964) The Basement (1966) Landscape (1967) Silence (1968) Old Times (1970) Monologue (1972) No Man's Land (1974) Betrayal (1978) Family Voices (1980) A Kind of Alaska (1982) Victoria Station (1982) One for the Road (1984) Mountain Language (1988) The New World Order (1991) Party Time (1991) Moonlight (1993) Ashes to Ashes (1996) Celebration (1999) Remembrance of Things Past (2000)

Dramatic sketches	The Black and White (1959) Trouble in the Works (1959) Last to Go (1959) Request Stop (1959) Special Offer (1959) That's Your Trouble (1959) That's All (1959) Interview (1959) Applicant (1959) Dialogue for Three (1959) Umbrellas (1960) Night (1969) Precisely (1983) "God's District" (1997) Press Conference (2002) Apart From That (2006)

Screenplays	The Caretaker (1963) The Servant (1963) The Pumpkin Eater (1963) The Quiller Memorandum (1965) Accident (1966) The Birthday Party (1968) The Go-Between (1970) The Homecoming (1969) Langrishe, Go Down (1970) The Proust Screenplay (1972) The Last Tycoon (1974) The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981) Betrayal (1982, 1983) Victory (1982) Turtle Diary (1984) Reunion (1989) The Heat of the Day (1988) The Comfort of Strangers (1989) Party Time (1992) The Trial (1993) The Dreaming Child (1997) The Tragedy of King Lear (2000) Sleuth (2007)

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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