OTHELLO - DVD-1952-ORSON WELLS-CRITERION COLLECTIO

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• Release Year: 1951
• Genre: Drama, Romance
• Plot: Gloriously cinematic despite its tiny budget, Orson Welles’s Othello is a testament to the filmmaker’s stubborn willingness to pursue his vision to the ends of the earth. Unmatched in his passionate identification with Shakespeare’s imagination, Welles brings his inventive visual approach to this enduring tragedy of jealousy, bigotry, and rage, and also gives a towering performance as the Moor of Venice, alongside Suzanne Cloutier as the innocent Desdemona, and Micheál MacLiammóir as the scheming Iago. Shot over the course of three years in Italy and Morocco and plagued by many logistical problems, this fiercely independent film joins Macbeth and Chimes at Midnight in making the case for Welles as the cinema’s most audacious interpreter of the Bard.
• Cast: Orson Welles, Micheál MacLiammóir, Robert Coote, Suzanne Cloutier, Hilton Edwards, Nicholas Bruce, Michael Laurence, Fay Compton, Doris Dowling, Abdullah Ben Mohamet, Joseph Cotten, Jean Davis, Joan Fontaine, Robert Rietty, Gudrun Ure, Jean Sacha, William Shakespeare
• Director: Orson Welles
• Runtime: 1:33
• Company: The Criterion Collection, Janus Films, Westchester Films, Inc.
• Media Format: Movie