i liked Amerika more than the Trial, and I like Straub&Huillet's film more than Welles'. Although the directors do take plenty of liberties with the material, they expertly follow and expand on the spirit of the book. The dialogue is in a very peculiar German, the actors always stumbling over certain words, to an ambivalent effect - between comedy and self-irony. Once you get used to it, it's quite bittersweet and, I gotta say it, kafkaesque.