Othello
- Alternative title
- Otello
- Synopsis
- Feature film. Adaptation by Boris Pasternak. Sometimes imaginative, sometimes stolid, the production takes every opportunity to get out of the studio. Sergei Bondarchuk is Othello.
- Language
- English
- Country
- Former USSR
- Medium
- Film; Video
- Technical information
- Colour / Sound
- Year of release
- 1955
- Duration
- 106 mins; 9,572 feet
Credits
- Director
- Sergei Yutkevich
- Cinematographer
- Evgeny Andrikanis
- Writer
- Boris Pasternak; William Shakespeare
- Screenplay
- Sergei Yutkevich
- Music
- Aram Khachaturian
- Production Design
- A. Vaisfeld; M. Kariakan; O. Krochinina; V. Dorrer
- Cast
Sergei Bondarchuk Othello Irina Skobtseva Desdemona Andrei Popov Iago Vladimir Soshalsky Michael Cassio Antonina Maximova Emilia A Kelberer Montano P. Brilling Lodovico Yevgeni Vesnik Roderigo
Additional Details
- Production type
- Fiction Films
- Plays
- Othello
- Subjects
- Drama
- Keywords
- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
- Related items
- Othello Premiere
- Week in Film No. 34/1955
Notes
- History
- An English dubbed version printed in Technicolor was made available in Britain, with Howard Marion Crawford supplying the voice of Othello, and Kathleen Byron as Desdemona. The BFI National Archive, London holds the original Sovcolor version.
USA premiere 15 May 1960. - Awards
- Cannes Film Festival 1956 - Best Director
- Documentation
- See Yutkevich: ‘Shekspiri i Kino’ ('Shakespeare and Film’) (Moscow, 1973)
- Reviews
- Davies, Anthony ‘Filming Othello’ in Davies, Anthony and Wells, Stanley (eds). Shakespeare and the Moving Image: the Plays on Film and Television. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp. 196-210. [Compares the films of Othello by Orson Welles, Stuart Burge, and Sergei Yutkevich].
Production Company
- Name
Mosfilm
Archive
- Name
BFI National Archive
- Web
- http://www.bfi.org.uk/archive-collections/searching-access-collections/research-viewing-services External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 020 7255 1444
- Fax
- 020 7436 0165
- Address
- 21 Stephen Street
London
W1T 1LN
Distributor
- Name
Castle Home Video
- info@santruaryrecords.co.uk
- Web
- http://www.sanctuaryrecordsgroup.co.uk External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 020 8974 1021
- Fax
- 020 8974 3700
- Address
- Sanctuary Records Group
A29 Barwell Business Park
Leatherhead Road
Chessington
KT9 2NY
Distributor (Sale)
- Name
Retail outlets
How to cite this record
Shakespeare, "Othello". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/15829 (Accessed 12 Nov 2024)