The National Building Museum is proud to partner with the American Film Institute (AFI) Silver Theatre and Cultural Center to present a film series associated with the Musueum's exhibition Unbuilt Washington. Things to Come: The City Imagined on Film screens films that feature striking alternative visions of urban life.

THE TRIAL
Saturday, March 10, 1:00 pm

Orson Welles renders Franz Kafka's unfinished novel into a satisfying cinematic whole, adding a bookended parable that finds the fractured fairy tale lurking inside the inexplicable persecution of K. (Anthony Perkins), a man accused of a crime but never told what it is. Subjected to ever-more-surreal episodes of harassment, insinuation and evasiveness, K. struggles to maintain his dignity despite the best efforts of temptresses Jeanne Moreau, Romy Schneider and Elsa Martinelli, various interrogations and beatings by strange men in black suits, and the un-reassuring assurances of Welles's blustery "Advocate." The film’s disorienting production design succeeds in its uncomfortable blending of modern architecture and ancient urban remains; combining brutalist buildings in Zagreb, Croatia and the deserted Gare d’Orsay train station (later Musee d’Orsay) in Paris to remarkable effect. DIR/SCR Orson Welles, based on the novel by Franz Kafka; PROD Alexander Salkind. France/Italy/West Germany/Yugoslavia, 1962, b&w, 118 min. NOT RATED

Ticket Information:
BUY TICKETS THROUGH AFI.com/Silver $8.50 AFI and NBM members | $11.50 General Admission | $9 Seniors (65+), Students (with valid ID), and Military | $7 Children (12 and under).  Tickets may also be purchased at the box office (opens 30 minutes before the first show of the day).  Please note that tickets are not available for purchase through the National Building Museum.

The AFI Silver Theatre is located at 8633 Colesville Road in Silver Spring, Maryland, Silver Spring Metro, Red Line.