SHAKESPEARE

Alternative title

Capriccio All’Italiana

Synopsis

Fiction short. Filmed in in March and April, 1967, as an episode for CAPRICCIO ALL’ ITALIANA. Pasolini transforms Shakespeare’s Othello into a laconic Italian puppet-show comedy with live marionettes embedded in a sub plot. It was Pasolini’s third and final collaboration with the popular actor Toto (Antonio De Curtis), who died immediately after the shooting of the film. Toto, who was nearly blind at the time, plays Iago.

Language

Italian (Standard)

Country

Italy

Medium

Film

Technical information

Colour / Sound

Year of release

1968

Duration

95 (total running time)

Credits

Director

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Producer

Dino De Laurentis

Cinematographer

Colli, Tonino Delli

Screenplay

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Cast

Ninetto Davoli	Othello
Laura Betti	Desdemona
Toto	Iago
Franco Franchi	Michael Cassio
Adriana Asti	Bianca
Carlo Pisacane	Brabantio
Ciccio Ingrassia	Roderigo
Domenico Modugno	Dustman
Francesco Leonetti	Puppeter

Additional Details

Production type

Fiction Films

Plays

Othello

Subjects

Drama

Keywords

puppet theatre; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Notes

Notes

Released on DVD in 2005 by DNC Home Entertainment and available (region 2) from http://www.internetbookshop.it.

General

Other episodes directed by Steno. Mauro Bolognini (2), Pino Zac and Mario Monicelli.

The song the singer / puppet master-Domenico Modugno, is taken from an Italian translation of Otello.

Reviews

`LA TERRA VISTA DALLA LUNA and CHE COSA SONO LE NUVOLE?' in Stack, Oswald. Pasolini or Pasolini: Interviews with Oswald Stack (London: Thames and Hudson in association with the British Film Institute, 1969), pp111-8.

The script (in Italian) for the Pasolini episode is printed in Cinema & Film, no,7-8, 1969. Winter-Spring, pp73-85.

Production Company

Name

Dino De Laurentis Cinematografica

Address

Italy

Distributor

Name

Euro International Films

Online Retailer

Name

www.internetbookshop.it