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The Merchant of Venice, With Audio Description.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Films for people with visual disabilities.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (132 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : Sony Pictures Classics, [date of publication not identified]
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- From Michael Radford, the Academy Award-nominated director of Il Postino, comes the critically-acclaimed screen adaptation of William Shakespeare's controversial classic, THE MERCHANT OF VENICE. Antonio (Jermey Irons), a successful but cash-poor merchant, approaches Shylock (Al Pacino), a wealthy moneylender, for a loan to help his young friend Bassanio (Joseph Fiennes, Shakespeare in Love) woo the fair Portia (Lynn Collins, 13 Going on 30). Despite being longtime enemies, Shylock grants the request, but demands one pound of Antonio's flesh if the debt is not repaid on time. When Antonio defaults on the loan, Shylock seeks what is legally owed to him but soon learns that those to whom evil is done, do evil in return.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed October 14, 2021).
- Title from resource description page (viewed September 14, 2026).
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