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8 August 1956 (Japan)
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Otello is a husband, who kills his young wife out of jealousy. full summary | add synopsis
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Shakespeare For Rookies
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Cast
(Credited cast) | Sergei Bondarchuk | ... | Othello |
| Irina Skobtseva | ... | Desdemona |
| Andrei Popov | ... | Iago |
| Vladimir Soshalsky | ... | Cassio |
| Yevgeni Vesnik | ... | Roderigo |
| Antonina Maksimova | ... | Emilia |
| Mikhail Troyanovsky | ... | Doge of Venice |
| Yevgeni Teterin | ... | Brabantio (as Ye. Teterin) |
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| L. Ashrafova | ||
| A. Blokh | ||
| V. Borzho | ||
| Nikolai Brilling | ... | Lodovico |
| Yu. Frid | ||
| Aleksei Kelberer | ... | Montano (as A. Kelberer) |
| V. Lebedev | ||
| I. Melamed | ||
| Sergei Troitsky | (as S. Troitsky) | |
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Othello (USA)
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USA:107 min
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Color (Sovcolor)
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The first filmed "Othello" in color.
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This smart and colorful version of the bard's play about the green eyed monster jealousy is popular entertainment: it runs like an Errol-Flynn-swashbuckler. Curly-head Desdemona looks like a (ripe) Hollywood starlet and Emilia is equally attractive. Sergei Bondarchuk's performance remains astonishingly fresh. He is a handsome, commanding presence with a boyish naivity: easy to dupe, but very sexy. Andrei Popov is equally superb as Don Juan like Iago, a fiery-eyed rooster. This film anticipates even the daring relationship of the Laurence Fishburne/ Kenneth Branagh version: In one scene Bondarchuk & Popov coo like turtle-doves. Laurence Olivier's (now politically incorrect) Othello and Kenneth Branagh's genial Iago may be unsurpassed, but this soviet version is more entertaining than the moth-eaten Orson Welles film and definitely more intelligent than the Zeffirelli film. Yutkevich won the director award in Cannes!