Filming 'Othello' (1978)

User Rating:

7.1/10   

Director:

Orson Welles

Writer:

Orson Welles (writer)

Release Date:

July 1979 (USA)

Genre:

Documentary

Plot:

"Il vero cineasta è colui che sa dominare le catastrofi !". Partendo da questa affermazione, Orson Welles spiega le ragioni...

Plot Keywords:

Film Making | Shakespeare's Othello | Acting | Interview | Director

Cast

Orson Welles	...	Host
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Robert Coote
Hilton Edwards
Micheál MacLiammóir

Also Known As:

Erinnerungen an 'Othello' (West Germany)

Runtime:

84 min

Country:

West Germany

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Trivia:

Like the making of _Othello (1952)_ itself, this documentary consisted of Orson Welles interviewing and photographing 'Michael MacLiamoor' and Hilton Edwards and then filming his portions of the same interview two years later.

Movie Connections:

Features The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice (1952)

In Welles' last completed film (I think), he talks us through his 1952 version of Othello, giving new insights and somehow making it work.

It's odd now to think of this film and know that I really did enjoy it. I had the pleasure a few years back at the Seattle Art Museum. For the most part, the film is Welles and two old friends/actors from the original film sitting around a table and talking about filming Othello and past life experiences. And somehow it worked. Which proves Welles' genius, even in these conditions he could make a great film. It looks as though it was filmed in his living room, which is a sad reminder of the treatment he got in the last 20 (40?) years of his life. Although, like most Welles fanatics, I am eagerly awaiting the chance to see "The Other Side of the Wind", this is really a film worthy of his talents and, on many levels, an appropriate last film.