Rialto Pictures is releasing the Studiocanal 4K restoration of Orson Welles’ adaption of The Trial next month and has previewed the re-release with a sharp new trailer.
The 60th-anniversary 4K restoration of The Trial opens at Film Forum in New York City on December 9 for a two-week run, followed by a national roll-out in selected theaters.
The Trial was restored by StudioCanal and la Cinémathèque française. The image and sound restorations were carried out in 4K at the L’image Retrouvée laboratory from the original 35mm negative. The project was supervised by StudioCanal’s Sophie Boyer, responsible for library restoration at StudioCanal, and Jean-Pierre Boiget, EVP distribution Services & IT at StudioCanal.
The trailer, which debuted on IndieWire’s website last week, can be seen on YouTube at youtu.be/plJtyZtEdvk and is embedded below:
Based on the Franz Kafka novel of the same name, it stars Anthony Perkins as Josef K., a bureaucrat who is accused of a never-specified crime. In addition to directing, Welles wrote the screenplay and co-starred in the movie.
Producer Alexander Salkind secured the backing of French, German and Italian investors.
Welles began the production in Yugoslavia with scenes also shot in Rome, Milan and, most notably, the Gare d’Orsay, an abandoned Parisian railway station.
Upon its release in December 1962, Welles boasted “The Trial is the best film I have ever made.”
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