THE TRIAL 4K UHD/BLU-RAY

A feverishly inspired take on Franz Kafka’s novel, Orson Welles’s The Trial casts Anthony Perkins as the bewildered office drone Josef K., whose arrest for an unspecified crime plunges him into a menacing bureaucratic labyrinth of guilt, corruption, and paranoia. Exiled from Hollywood and creatively unchained, Welles poured his ire at the studio system, the blacklist, and all forms of totalitarian oppression into this cinematic statement—a bold, personal film that he himself considered one of his greatest. Dizzying camera angles, expressionistic lighting, increasingly surreal locations—Welles unleashed the full force of his visual brilliance to convey the nightmarish disorientation of a world gone mad.FEATURES:New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrackOne 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special featuresNew audio commentary featuring film historian Joseph McBrideFilming “The Trial,” a 1981 documentary about the film’s productionArchival i