LE PROCÈS

Orson Welles' Kafka film adaptation from 1962 looks and functions like a fascinating nightmare.

The settings seem strangely distant, the dialogues drift from familiar realms into a world that seems to function according to different rules and the plot drives poor Josef K. mercilessly forward, ever deeper into the bureaucratic and at the same time arbitrary world of his trial. He finds out about this in his own bedroom when suddenly state power appears in the room - and moves within it with a naturalness that is only possible in authoritarian regimes. "Someone must have slandered Josef K., because without him having done anything bad, he was arrested one morning." As is well known, this is how Josef K.'s odyssey begins in the novel.