OTHELLO [BLU-RAY]

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• Release Year: 1952
• 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: Micheál MacLiammóir, Suzanne Cloutier, Orson Welles, Robert Coote, Hilton Edwards, Michael Laurence, Fay Compton, Nicholas Bruce, Doris Dowling, Jean Davis, Abdullah Ben Mohamet, Joseph Cotten, Joan Fontaine, Robert Rietty, Gudrun Ure, William Shakespeare, Jean Sacha, Walter Bedone, Patrice Dali, Rocco Facchini, Giorgio Papi, G.R. Aldo, Anchise Brizzi, George Fanto, Alberto Fusi, Oberdan Troiani, Jenö Csepreghy, Renzo Lucidi, William Morton, Alberto Barberis, Angelo Francesco Lavagnino
• Director: Orson Welles
• Runtime: 1:33
• Company: Scalera Film, Mercury Productions, Westchester Films, Inc., Film Museum München, Janus Films, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie