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The Trial
DVD cover
Directed by	David Jones
Screenplay by	Harold Pinter
Based on	The Trial 1925 play by Franz Kafka
Produced by	Louis Marks Jan Balzer
Starring	Kyle MacLachlan Anthony Hopkins Jason Robards
Cinematography	Phil Méheux
Edited by	John Stothart
Music by	Carl Davis
Distributed by	Angelika Films
Release date	24 November 1993 (1993-11-24)
Running time	120 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Box office	$0.2 million (UK/US)

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.

Plot summary

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Cast

Kyle MacLachlan as Josef K.
Anthony Hopkins as Priest
Jason Robards as Doctor Huld
Juliet Stevenson as Fräulein Bürstner
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
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
Patrick Godfrey as Court usher
Andrew Tiernan as Berthold
Jiří Schmitzer as Thin defendant
Don Henderson as Flogger
Martin Faltyn as Clerk
Robert Lang as K's uncle
Jan Laibl as Chief clerk
John Woodvine as Herr Deimen
Jean Stapleton as Landlady (uncredited)

Production

The film was shot in Prague and Kutná Hora.

Reception

The film grossed £58,000 in the United Kingdom. In the United States and Canada it grossed $119,267.

References

"The Trial (1993)". BFI. Archived from the original on 10 September 2017.
"The Trial (1993) - David Hugh Jones | Cast and Crew | AllMovie" – via www.allmovie.com.
"Czech filming locations and movies filmed in the Czech Republic". www.myczechrepublic.com.
"UK films and co-productions". Screen International. 14 January 1994. p. 50.
"The Trial". Box Office Mojo.

External links

v t e Films directed by David Jones
Langrishe, Go Down (1978) 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)

v t e Adaptations of works by Franz Kafka
Films	The Trial (1962) The Castle (1968) The Penal Colony (1970) Klassenverhältnisse (1984) The Loves of Kafka (1988) 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

v t e 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) The 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) The Pres and an Officer (2018)
Screenplays	The Caretaker (1963) The Servant (1963) The Pumpkin Eater (1964) The Quiller Memorandum (1966) Accident (1967) The Birthday Party (1968) The Homecoming (1969) Langrishe, Go Down (1970) The Go-Between (1971) The Proust Screenplay (1972) The Last Tycoon (1976) The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981) Victory (1982) Betrayal (1983) Turtle Diary (1984) The Heat of the Day (1988) Reunion (1989) The Comfort of Strangers (1990) The Handmaid's Tale (1990) 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

v t e Franz Kafka's The Trial
Adaptations	Der Prozeß (1953 opera) The Trial (1962 film) The Trial (1993 film) The Trial (2014 opera)
Film variations	Kafka (1991)
Other	Break-Up

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