In his interpretation of The Trial, director Algimantas Puipa depicts Jozef K. as a cinephile watching the adventures of Chaplin and Lloyd in the cinema hall. The cinema becomes a hiding place for Jozef K., where the officials nevertheless appear and do not leave him alone. According to Puipa, "Joseph K.'s comic guilt lies in his sanity, in his healthy human reactions to an absurd act".
About the film
Details
- Running time
- 2 hr. 16 min.
- Country, year
- Lithuania, 1994
- Genre
- Drama
- Language
- Lithuanian
- Subtitles
- English
- Age rating
- Pegi 13
Credits
- Director
- Algimantas Puipa
- Screenplay
- Franz Kafka, Algimantas Puipa
- Cinematography
- Zigmas Gružinskas
- Music
- Juozas Širvinskas
- Cast
- Kostas Smoriginas, Vytautas Paukštė, Vidas Petkevičius
- More information
- www.imdb.com
Director
Algimantas Puipa
Graduated from the Moscow Institute of Cinematography and soon made the film The Day of Retribution (1975) together with director Stasys Motiejūnas. Puipa's independent creative biography began with a screen adaptation of O'Henry's novels - the witty, playful TV film I won't be a gangster, darling (1978). Since then, Puipa has made 21 feature-length films. Many of them have won prizes at international film festivals.
