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1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. |
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optical rdarm |
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video file rdaft |
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Blu-ray |
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Motion pictures lcgft |
| Series |
Criterion collection.
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| System Details |
Blu-ray, wide screen (1.66:1); requires Blu-ray player. |
| Language |
Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH). |
| Note |
Title from container. |
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Originally released as a motion picture in 1962. |
| Cast |
Anthony Perkins, Orson Welles, Jeanne Moreau, Romy Schneider, Elsa Martinelli. |
| Summary |
A feverishly inspired take on Franz Kafka's novel, Orson Welles's film casts Anthony Perkins as the bewildered office drone Josef K., whose arrest for an unspecified crime plunges him into a menacing bureaucratic labyrinth of guilt, corruption, and paranoia. Exiled from Hollywood and creatively unchained, Welles poured his ire at the studio system, McCarthyism, and all forms of totalitarian oppression into this cinematic statement, one of his boldest and most personal, and the film that he himself considered his greatest. Dizzying camera angles, expressionistic lighting, increasingly surreal locations; Welles unleashed the full force of his visual brilliance to convey the nightmarish disorientation of a world gone mad. |
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Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 -- Film adaptations.
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Bureaucracy -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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False arrest -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Authoritarianism -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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| Genre |
Thrillers (Motion pictures)
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Feature films.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Fiction films.
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Blu-ray discs.
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| Added Author |
Motion picture adaptation of (work): Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924.
Prozess. English.
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Welles, Orson, 1915-1985, film director, actor.
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Perkins, Anthony, 1932-1992, actor.
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Moreau, Jeanne, 1928-2017, actor.
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Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
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| Standard No. |
715515287012 |
| Music No. |
CC3486BD The Criterion Collection |
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