The Trial (1948 film)

1948 film

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

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

1. "Venice Film Festival 1948". Film Affinity. Retrieved 19 April 2019.
2. 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). JSTOR 44504013 – via academia.edu.

External links

• Der Prozeß (1948) at IMDb