Question: The Trial, released in which year, is a film directed by Orson Welles, the film begins with Welles narrating Kafka's parable "Before the Law" to pinscreen scenes created by the artist Alexandre Alexeieff, was a Russian Empire-born artist, filmmaker and illustrator who lived and worked mainly in Paris?

Context articles: Vienna (film)
Alexandre Rockwell
The Trial (1962 film)
The Southern Star (film)
Alexandre Alexeieff
Around the World with Orson Welles
Me and Orson Welles
The Mercury Wonder Show
Richard France (writer)
Beatrice Welles

Vienna (also known as Orson Welles' Vienna or Spying in Vienna) is a 1968 short film directed by Orson Welles.
 It was originally produced as part of his abandoned television special, Orson's Bag, which was made for CBS; but in 1969, with the project close to completion, CBS withdrew their funding over Welles' long-running disputes with US authorities regarding his tax status.
 The film remained uncompleted.
 Despite its name, "Vienna" freely mixes footage shot in Vienna, Zagreb, and in a Los Angeles studio.
 The 8-minute segment was restored by the Munich Film Museum in 1999.
Rockwell is the grandson of the Russian animator Alexandre Alexeieff, who invented the pinscreen, and of Alexandra Grinevsky, Countess de Lowendhal.
 His grandmother was a stage actress in Paris, as well as an artist.
 His father was also an actor and filmmaker.
 His mother, Svetlana Rockwell, was born in Paris and emigrated to the US to marry Alex's father; she was a painter.
 Rockwell grew up in Cambridge, MA and moved to New York City in his early 20s.
The Trial (1962) is a film directed by Orson Welles, who also wrote the screenplay based on the novel of the same name by Franz Kafka.
 Filmed in Europe, Welles stated immediately after completing the film: ""The Trial" is the best film I have ever made".
 The film begins with Welles narrating Kafka's parable "Before the Law" to pinscreen scenes created by the artist Alexandre Alexeieff.
 Anthony Perkins stars as Josef K., a bureaucrat who is accused of a never-specified crime, and Jeanne Moreau, Romy Schneider, and Elsa Martinelli play women who become involved in various ways in Josef's trial and life.
 Welles plays the Advocate, Josef's lawyer and the film's principal antagonist.
The Southern Star (French title: L'Étoile du sud) is a Technicolor 1969 British-French comedy crime film directed by Sidney Hayers and starring George Segal, Ursula Andress and Orson Welles.
 In French West Africa in 1912, an extremely valuable diamond is stolen.
 It was based on the novel "The Vanished Diamond" (French title "L'Étoile du sud") by Jules Verne.
 The film's opening scenes were anonymously directed by Orson Welles - the last time he would direct scenes in another director's film.
Alexandre Alexandrovitch Alexeieff (Russian: Александр Александрович Алексеев "Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Alekseyev" (sometimes credited as Alexander Alexeieff or Alexander Alexeïeff or Alexandre Alexieff); 18 April 1901 – 9 August 1982) was a Russian Empire-born artist, filmmaker and illustrator who lived and worked mainly in Paris.
 He and his second wife Claire Parker (1906–1981) are credited with inventing the pinscreen as well as the animation technique totalization.
 In all Alexeieff produced 6 films on the pinscreen, 41 advertising films and illustrated 41 books.
Around the World with Orson Welles is a series of six short travelogues originally written and directed by Orson Welles for Associated-Rediffusion in 1955, for Britain's then-new ITV channel.
 Despite its title emphasizing the world, it was entirely filmed in Europe.
 Among other incidents in the episodes, Welles visited Jean Cocteau and Juliette Gréco in Paris, attended a bullfight in Madrid (with co-hosts Kenneth Tynan and Elaine Dundy) and visited the Basque Country.
Me and Orson Welles is a 2008 British-American period drama film directed by Richard Linklater and starring Zac Efron, Christian McKay, and Claire Danes.
 Based on Robert Kaplow's novel of the same name, the story, set in 1937 New York, tells of a teenager hired to perform in Orson Welles's groundbreaking stage adaptation of William Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar".
 He becomes attracted to a career-driven production assistant.
The Mercury Wonder Show for Service Men was a 1943 magic-and-variety stage show by the Mercury Theatre, produced by Orson Welles and Joseph Cotten as a morale-boosting entertainment for US soldiers in World War II.
 Directed by Welles, the show starred Welles ("Orson the Magnificent"), Cotten ("Jo-Jo the Great"), Agnes Moorehead ("Calliope Aggie") and Rita Hayworth, whose part was later filled by Marlene Dietrich.
 Jean Gabin also worked on the show backstage, as a propman.
 The show ran to 150 minutes.
Richard France (born May 5, 1938) is an American playwright, author, and film and drama critic.
 He is a recognized authority on the stage work of American filmmaker Orson Welles.
 His publication, "The Theatre of Orson Welles", which received a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book Award in 1979, has been called "a landmark study" and has been translated into Japanese.
 His 1990 companion volume, "Orson Welles on Shakespeare" has been praised by Welles critics and biographers.
Beatrice Giuditta Welles (Beatrice Mori di Gerfalco Welles; born November 13, 1955 in Manhattan, New York) is an American former child actress, known for her roles in the film "Chimes at Midnight" (1966) and the documentary travelogue "In the Land of Don Quixote" (1964).
 The daughter of filmmaker Orson Welles and Italian countess Paola Mori, she is a former model, radio and TV personality, founder of a cosmetics line and designer of handbags and jewelry.
 She administers the estate of Orson Welles.