The Trial
A bewildered man arrested for an unknown crime battles an opaque, nightmarish bureaucracy to prove his innocence before the system consumes him.
“The Most Remarkable Motion Picture Ever Made!”
Synopsis
Josef K. is arrested for an unspecified crime and becomes ensnared in a surreal bureaucratic system in which justice remains elusive and guilt is presumed.
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Principal cast & crew: 19
These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.
Why a floor?
This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.
Craft leads on file
Edited by Yvonne MartinShot by Edmond RichardScored by Jean Ledrut
Box Office
1962 · Box office
📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.1× its budget
Why 2.5×?
Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).
Worldwide gross
$94K
Re-release box office
- 20235 theaters
- $105K($114K today)
- 20221 theaters
- $45K($51K today)
- Total re-release
- $150K
Domestic gross earned in theatrical re-release, by year · adjusted for inflation
Also known as
- Der Prozessde
- Der Prozeßde
- The Trialen
- El procesoes
- Il processoit
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Cast & Crew
19 unique people credited
Top billed cast
Anthony Perkins
as Josef K.
Arnoldo Foa
as Inspector A
Anthony Perkins Nm0000578
as Josef K.
Jess Hahn
as Second Assistant Inspector
Billy Kearns
as First Assistant Inspector
Madeleine Robinson
as Mrs. Grubach
Jeanne Moreau
as Marika Burstner
Maurice Teynac
as Deputy Manager
Naydra Shore
as Irmie
Suzanne Flon
as Miss Pittl
Raoul Delfosse
as Policeman
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3Producers
1Other crew
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