Thriller film ‘The Trial’ to screen at Cinema Daal in Cairo

CAIRO – 11 July 2017: Directed and written by Orson Welles, The Trial will be screening at Cinema Daal in Garden City on July 12.

The drama/ mystery film was released on December 21, 1962 in France, Italy and Germany featured in English language.

It is based on a 10-chapter- novel of the same name written by Franz Kafka during 1914-1915 and published in 1925 then adapted by Pierre Cholot.

‘The Trial’ is about a man called Josef K who was arrested on his birthday without knowing the charges against him. In his room at his lodging house, he found an inspector interrogating him and telling him he is under arrest, but he was only allowed to go to work at his bank. Then, all of the sudden his inquiry was held in a court filled with officials in an apartment building in an impoverished neighborhood.

It won the "Best Film" award of the French Syndicate of Cinema Critics in 1964.
The film’s stars are Kyle MacLachlan (Josef K), Anthony Hopkins (the Priest) and Jason Robards (Doctor Huld).

‘The Trial’ is considered as a metaphor for the Jewish holocaust especially seen in K’s brutal execution in the court without any reason, according to The Guardian.

There are slight differences between the novel and the film as “the parable that K hears in the cathedral ("Before the Law stands a door-keeper") is converted into a short prologue. Welles constructed a series of surreal sets in the old Gare d'Orsay, creating a cinematic texture in stark contrast to the "lusterless normality" of Kafka's original descriptions,” highlighted The Guardian.

Franz Kafka was born into Jewish family in Prague, Czech, in1883. He graduated from the German University in Prague as Doctor of Law in 1906. As a Jew, he suffered from social tension and persecution from German community affecting most of his writings. He died in 1924.