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Othello (also known as The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice) is a 1951 tragedy directed and produced by Orson Welles, who also adapted the Shakespearean play and played the title role. Recipient of the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film (precursory name for the Palme d'Or [ 3 ] ) at the 1952 Cannes Film Festival , the film was ...
In 1951, Welles had completed principal photography, but was still trying to raise money to finish editing the film. He was thus delighted to receive an offer from Laurence Olivier, then operating the St James's Theatre, to come and perform Othello on the London stage. Olivier's offer was not met with universal approval.
He then directed and starred in the film-noir The Lady from Shanghai (1947), appearing opposite his estranged wife Rita Hayworth. [8] His 1951 film Othello won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film festival. [9] In 1958, Universal-International released the Welles-directed Touch of Evil, in which he also starred alongside Charlton Heston and Janet ...
The Venice International Film Festival will dedicate its pre-opening events on September 1 toOrson Welles, to mark the centennial of his birth. His Venetian films will find new life at the ...
[242] [243] This plot is also shared by the very first Othello-influenced film: the 18-minute Danish 1911 Desdemona. [244] [245] All Night Long reframes the story in a jazz milieu. [246] And Richard Eyre's Stage Beauty depicts a restoration performance of the play. [247] The filming of Orson Welles' Othello was plagued by chaos. A pattern ...
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Micheál Mac Liammóir, who worked with the 16-year-old Welles on the stage in Dublin and later played Iago in his film Othello (1951), wrote that "Orson's courage, like everything else about him, imagination, egotism, generosity, ruthlessness, forbearance, impatience, sensitivity, grossness and vision is magnificently out of proportion."
Filming Othello is a 1978 English-language West German documentary film directed by and starring Orson Welles about the making of his award-winning 1951 production Othello. The film, which was produced for West German television, was the last completed feature film directed by Welles, as well as the last one to be made during his lifetime.