Carnival

Synopsis: Feature film. Simonetta, the wife of the celebrated Italian actor Silvio Steno, spends time with his best friend Scipione while Steno prepares for a production of Othello. Simonetta and Scipione go to the Venice Carnival together and Steno becomes jealous. During the production Steno becomes so intensely jealous that he almost strangles Desdemona, played by his wife. As she recovers she tells him that she renounced Scipione’s amorous advances and they are reconciled. Includes several scenes from Othello.
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Film
Technical information: Black-and-white / Silent
Year of release: 1921
Recording date: 28 May 1921
Duration: 72 mins; 6,500 feet

Director

Harley Knoles

Cinematographer

Philip Hatkin

Screenplay

Adrian Johnson; Rosina Henley

Cast

Matheson Lang	Silvio Stemo (Othello)
Hilda Bayley	Simonetta, his wife (Desdemona)
Clifford Grey (2)	Lelio
Florence Hunter	Nino
Ivor Novello	Count Andrea Scipione
Maria de Bernaldo	Octavia
Victor McLaglen	Baron

Notes: The original release length was 6500ft; the copy in the BFI National Archive is 4835ft.
General: Adapted from the play by H.C. Hardinge and Matheson Lang. Lang remade the film in 1931.

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