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Othello / presented in association with the National Film Museum, Inc. ; Kino International Corporation ; Ben Blumenthal presents ; directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki.
LIBRA DVD 011 264
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Othello, author.
- Subjects (All):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Othello--Film adaptations.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Film adaptations.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Genre:
- Film adaptations.
- Feature films.
- Silent films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- monochrome
- Other Title:
- Title on container: William Shakespeare's Othello
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Kino on Video, [2001]
- Language Note:
- Silent, with English intertitles; musical score added.
- System Details:
- DVD; Digital stereo.
- digital
- optical
- stereo
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- Directed by Russian expatriate Dimitri Buchowetzki this early version of William Shakespeare's Othello is a fine example of the artistic and technical virtuosity of the German silent cinema. Rather than a literal adaptation, the film is more of a dark psychological thriller in the German tradition. Cavernous chambers and stony battlements cast shadows of impending doom upon Othello and Desdemona as the Mephistophelian Iago dances about them, methodically destroying their happiness and steering them toward their bitter fate with impish delight.
- Participant:
- Emil Jannings, Werner Krauss, Lya De Putti, Ica von Lenkeffy.
- Credits:
- Photography, Karl Hasselmann and Friedrich Paulmann; art direction, Fritz Kraenke & Karl Machus; piano score composed and performed by Jon C. Mirsalis.
- Notes:
- "Dimitri Buchowetzki's 1922 adaptation."--Container.
- Based on Othello / by William Shakespeare.
- Supplemental features: four silent Shakespearean shorts: Duel scene from Macbeth (1905), The taming of the shrew (1908), Romeo turns bandit (1910), Desdemona (1911); essay by Douglas Brode.
- Videodisc release of the silent motion picture produced in 1922.
- Contains:
- Duel scene from Macbeth.
- Taming of the shrew.
- Romeo turns bandit.
- Desdemona.
- OCLC:
- 47213909
- Publisher Number:
- 738329018022
- K181 Kino on Video
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