The Trial (1948 film)

The Trial
Film poster
Directed by	G. W. Pabst
Written by	Emmerich Roboz [hu]
Screenplay by	Rudolf Brunngraber Kurt Heuser Emeric Roboz
Produced by	Johann Alexander Hübler-Kahla
Starring	Ewald Balser
Cinematography	Helmut Ashley Oskar Schnirch
Edited by	Anna Höllering [de]
Music by	Alois Melichar
Release date	5 March 1948 (1948-03-05)
Running time	108 minutes
Country	Austria
Language	German

The Trial (German: Der Prozeß) is a 1948 Austrian drama film directed by G. W. Pabst. At the 9th Venice International Film Festival, Pabst won the Award for Best Director; Ernst Deutsch won the award for Best Actor and the Volpi Cup.^[1] The story is based on the events of the Tiszaeszlár affair.^[2]

Plot summary

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Cast

Ewald Balser as Dr. Eötvös
Marianne Schönauer as Dr. Eötvös' fiancée
Ernst Deutsch as Scharf, temple servant
Rega Hafenbrödl as his wife
Albert Truby as Moritz, his son
Heinz Moog as Baron Onody
Maria Eis as Widow Solymosi
Aglaja Schmid as Esther, her daughter
Ida Russka [de; it] as Bäurin (farmer) Batori, Esther's employer
Iván Petrovich as Egressy, prosecutor
Gustav Diessl as Both, prosecutor
Fritz Hinz-Fabricius [de] as Judge
Josef Meinrad as Bary, investigating judge

References

^ "Venice Film Festival 1948". Film Affinity. Retrieved 19 April 2019.
^ Lisa Silverman (April 2017). "Absent Jews and Invisible Antisemitism in Postwar Vienna: Der Prozeß (1948) and The Third Man (1949)". Journal of Contemporary History. 52 (2): 211–228 (214). doi:10.1177/0022009417696452. JSTOR 44504013 – via academia.edu.

External links

Der Prozeß (1948) at IMDb

Films directed by G. W. Pabst

The Treasure (1923)
Countess Donelli (1924)
Joyless Street (1925)
Secrets of a Soul (1926)
One Does Not Play with Love (1926)
The Love of Jeanne Ney (1927)
The Devious Path (1928)
Pandora's Box (1929)
Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)
The White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929)
Westfront 1918 (1930)
Scandalous Eva (1930)
The Threepenny Opera (1931)
Kameradschaft (1931)
L'Atlantide (1932)
Don Quixote (1933)
High and Low (1933)
A Modern Hero (1934)
Street of Shadows (1937)
The Shanghai Drama (1938)
Girls in Distress (1939)
The Comedians (1941)
Paracelsus (1943)
Der Fall Molander (1945)
The Trial (1948)
Mysterious Shadows (1949)
Call Over the Air (1951)
Voice of Silence (1953)
Cose da pazzi (1954)
The Confession of Ina Kahr (1954)
The Last Ten Days (1955)
Jackboot Mutiny (1955)
Ballerina (1956)
Through the Forests and Through the Trees (1956)

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