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Show Trial to show The next film in theS Series is "The Trial." ,T Sunday Oct. 22 in theUniwl-Theatre theUniwl-Theatre at 7 p.m. "The Trial (or Le directed by Orson Wells. V famous for such greats as V Kane," "The Lady ,1 Shanghai," "Macbeth," "Otfs and "Touch of Evil."' ' Wells does film The opportunity to make a fh Kafka's "The Trial" came in The producers of a play thatrs' acting in, "Austerlitz," f. Wells a quite generous b and a choice of subject inthe-works inthe-works of literature; he setfe Kafka and decided to designs aspect of the film himseH, ctet an unsettling Kafka-esquew: no particular time yet syrrfe: the present, with offices; courtrooms and studio it necting,and the action takings grayly inddors. Gradually, t plight becomes worse, tre-were tre-were to disintegrate, until he n: be left pinned and helpless r fate against a blank expand image of death from whittle last piece of set material lull-removed. lull-removed. Improvisation necessi- Alas, Wells was not t permitted to make the fr planned. He was forced: provise drastically, becaustc: in money. He had to transfer' Zagreb streets into reflect;: Kafka-esque world. Otta: were shot in Paris. Kafka's icily gray, claustropto. compressed, is a parable r human condition; its centra1-; K, played tiresomelyinfc'' Anthony Perkins, scurries ' doomed rat around his more; Wells has reworked the the terms of his own vision . us see the danger o1 anonymous powers wrict threateningly over us, fWl film meaningfully on a X mushroom cloud. |