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Title Othello
Originaltitle: The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice
Regie: Franklin Melton
Darsteller: William Marshall, Ron Moody, Jenny Agutter
Erscheinungsjahr: 1981
Land: USA
Stichwort: Epilepsie
Release: 00.00.0000

Handlung
Othello ist wegen seiner "Rasse" verachtet, wegen seines militärischen Könnens geschätzt. Mit seiner Heirat beleidigt er die Familie seiner Frau Desdemona. Jago beneidet ihn und verdächtigt ihn des Ehebruchs mit seiner eigenen Frau. Darum bringt er ihn dazu, an Desdemona zu zweifeln und sie aus Eifersucht umzubringen.


Weitere Info
“Othello”-Versionen und -Modernisierungen
Auswahl siehe auch Royal Shakespeare Company, http://www.rsc.org.uk/othello/teachers/film.html

1922: Dmitri Buchowetzki
1952: Orson Welles
1955: Sergei Yutkevich
1965: Stuart Burge
1978: Orson Welles, Filming Othello
1981: Franklin Melton
1981: Jonathan Miller
1992: Aida Ziablikova: Othello – The animated tales
1995: Oliver Parker

Moderne Versionen von Othello

An actor becomes murderously jealous and begins to have trouble separating reality from illusion when playing Othello opposite his ex-wife's Desdemona in post-war New York.

The story of Othello updated and set in London in the world of jazz musicians. The cast includes Patrick McGoohan and Richard Attenborough.

A Rock musical adaptation of Othello of the play starring folk singer Richie Havens (of Woodstock fame) as a preacher who marries a young white girl in a desert town run by Iago.
This film, originally called The One, is the most recent update of Shakespeare's story. Its release was delayed by the Columbine shootings in 1999. An ambitious (if unrealistic) film which sets the story of Othello in a east coast private school where "O" is the only African-American student. A star basketball player with a white, virginal girlfriend, he arouses the jealousy of fellow team-mate Hugo, son of the head basketball coach.



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