Other author/creator | Buchowetzki, Dimitri, 1885-1932. |
Other author/creator | Jannings, Emil, 1884-1950. |
Other author/creator | Krauss, Werner, 1884-1959. |
Other author/creator | Putti, Lya de, 1896?-1931. |
Other author/creator | Lenkeffy, Ica von, 1896-1955. |
Other author/creator | Griffith, D. W. (David Wark), 1875-1948. |
Other author/creator | Linder, Max, 1883-1925. |
Other author/creator | Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Othello. |
Other author/creator | National Film Museum (U.S.) |
Other author/creator | Kino International Corporation. |
Variant title |
Title on container: William Shakespeare's Othello |
Contents |
Supplemental features, Four silent Shakespearean shorts: Duel scene from Macbeth (American Mutoscope and Biograph Co., 1905) ; The taming of the shrew, (Biograph, 1908 ; directed by D.W. Griffith) ; Romeo turns bandit (Pathé Frères, 1910 with Max Linder--in color) ; Desdemona = For Åbent Tæppe (Nordisk, 1911, directed by August Blom, with Valdemar Psilander) |
Abstract |
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Abstract |
"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."--Container. |
General note | Originally released as a motion picture in 1922. |
General note | Also features four silent Shakespearean shorts: Duel scene from Macbeth (1905, American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.) ; The taming of the shrew (1908, Biograph, Directed by D.W. Griffith) ; Romeo turns bandit (1910, Pathé Frères, starring Max Linder) ; Desdemona (1911, Nordisk Film Co.). |
General note | Based on the play by William Shakespeare. |
Credits | Photographed by Karl Hasselmann & Friedrich Paulmann ; art direction: Fritz Kraenke & Karl Machus ; piano score composed & performed by Jon C. Mirsalis. |
Cast |
Emil Jannings, Werner Krauss, Lya De Putti, Ica von Lenkeffy. |
Technical details | DVD. |
Language | Silent film with English intertitles and musical accompaniment. |
Other title | Duel scene from Macbeth. |
Other title | Taming of the shrew. |
Other title | Romeo turns bandit. |
Other title | Desdemona. |
Publisher number | K181 DVD Kino International |