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  • Shylock von Krakau, Der (1913 Film)

    aka: Jew, The

    Director
    Carl Wilhelm
    Producer
    Paul davidson

    Fiction film based on The Merchant of Venice in which the daughter of a pious Jew steals money from her father and elopes with her lover who has been borrowing from Shylock. Shylock’s pursuit of his...

  • Othello (1909 Film)

    aka: Death of Othello

    Director
    Franz Porten
    Producer
    Oskar Messter

    A film depicting a scene from Verdi’s Otello, using the experimental synchronisation process known as the Biophon developed in 1903 by Oskar Messter. Ball (op cit, p. 33) describes how a camera turned...

  • Romeo und Julia (1909 Film)

    aka: Romeo and Juliet

    Ball (op cit) writes, taking the information from the Wiesbaden brochure, "Deutsche Vitascope made a brief sound film of Romeo and Juliet with Luisa Tettrazzini as Juliet. This was perhaps a presentation of...

  • Shakespeare’s Death Mask (Video)

    News compilation (mainly from German television sources recorded 1995-1996) on the Darmstadt death mask of Shakespeare.

  • Macbeth (Video)

    Director
    George Froscher

    Recording of George Froscher’s 1988 production of Macbeth for the Freies Theater, Munich. No further information known (9/2007).

  • Sonette (Television)

    aka: Sonnets

    Director
    Wolfgang Engel

    A dramatic interpretation of the Sonnets by Wolfgang Engel. An actor, an actress, a dancer and two musicians enact some 40 sonnets. No attempt is made to impose a biographical meaning on them.