Othello (1955 film)

Othello (Отелло)
Film poster
Directed by	Sergei Yutkevich
Written by	Sergei Yutkevich
Based on	Othello by William Shakespeare
Starring	Sergei Bondarchuk Andrei Popov Irina Skobtseva Vladimir Soshalsky Yevgeny Vesnik
Cinematography	Yevgeniy Nikolayevich Andrikanis
Music by	Aram Khachaturian
Release date	1955 (1955)
Running time	107 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Othello (Russian: Отелло, romanized: Otello) is a 1955 Soviet romantic drama film directed by Sergei Yutkevich,^[1][2] based on the play Othello by William Shakespeare. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival, where Yutkevich received the Best Director Award.^[3]

Cast[edit]

• Sergei Bondarchuk as Othello
• Andrei Popov as Iago
• Irina Skobtseva as Desdemona
• Vladimir Soshalsky as Cassio
• Yevgeny Vesnik as Roderigo
• Antonina Maksimova as Emilia
• Yevgeny Teterin as Brabantio
• Mikhail Troyanovsky as Duke of Venice
• Aleksei Kelberer as Montano
• Nikolai Briling as Lodovico
• Leila Ashrafova as Bianca

References[edit]

Further reading[edit]

• Gaydin, Boris N. (2018), "Sergei Yutkevich's Othello Revisited: A View from the 21st Century", Znanie. Ponimanie. Umenie, 15 (4): 204–216, doi:10.17805/zpu.2018.4.20, archived from the original on 30 December 2018, retrieved 22 August 2019.

External links[edit]

• Othello at IMDb

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