Name: Filming 'The Trial'
Director: Orson Welles
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1981-02-01
Duration: 1 h 22 min

Filming 'The Trial' (1981)

English 1h 22m

About Filming 'The Trial' Movie

Directed by Orson Welles, Filming 'The Trial' (1981) is an English-language Documentary Movie. In 1981, Welles gave a 90-minute question-and-answer session at the University of Southern California after a screening of The Trial. He had his cinematographer Gary Graver film the session with a view to editing highlights of the footage into the projected film. Graver observed, "A lot of people were there in the audience that day who are successful filmmakers now",[1] as well as several noted film critics such as Joseph McBride and Todd McCarthy.[2] However, Welles never got round to editing the raw footage. Its only use in Welles' lifetime was by BBC journalist Leslie Megahy for his 1982 Arena documentary on Welles; specifically, the documentary features a young man asking Welles whether he would agree he has been persecuted by The Establishment and the capitalist system, and Welles being somewhat bemused by the question.

Movie Details

Release Date01 Feb 1981

LanguageEnglish

Runtime1h 22m

StatusReleased

DirectorOrson Welles

GenreDocumentary

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