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Othello is a 1995 film based on William Shakespeare's tragedy of the same name. It was directed by Oliver Parker and stars Laurence Fishburne as Othello, Irène Jacob as Desdemona, and Kenneth Branagh as Iago. This is the first cinematic reproduction of the play released by a major studio that casts an African American actor to play the role of Othello, although low-budget independent films of the play starring Ted Lange and Yaphet Kotto predated it.
The film, shot in Italy, follows the story of the play closely, but cuts many lines. In addition it adds scenes not in the play, including a sex scene between Othello and Desdemona, dreams in which Othello imagines Desdemona's supposed affair with Cassio, a scene in which Desdemona dances for Othello and a final scene in which the bodies of those killed are buried at sea.
The film was not a financial success, grossing only $2.1 million in the United States on its $11 million budget (however, it had a very limited theater count). It received largely positive reviews, especially for Branagh's Iago. Janet Maslin wrote in the New York Times "Mr. Branagh's superb performance, as the man whose Machiavellian scheming guides the story of Othello's downfall, guarantees this film an immediacy that any audience will understand." Branagh was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for his performance, in the Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role category.
Actors: William Shakespeare (writer), Andrew Harwood Mills (actor), Suri Krishnamma (writer), Suri Krishnamma (director), Diane Shorthouse (producer), Edmund Swabey (editor), Bobby Barry (composer), Susan Kingman (actress), Matthew Clancy (actor), Yonah Odoom (actress), Robert Eldridge (actor), Tom Thomasson (actor), Jamiu Adebiyi (actor), Lorraine Bhattachary (costume designer), Kirsty Mann (actress),
Genres: Drama, Romance, Short, Thriller,Actors: Jason Witter (producer), Jason Witter (director), Jason Witter (writer), Scott Bryan (editor), Scott Bryan (actor), Scott Bryan (composer), Kevin R. Elder (actor), Aaron Frale (writer), Andy Brooks (actor), Daniel T. Cornish (actor), Summer Olsson (actress), Ethan Moya (actor), Doug Montoya (actor), George Bach (actor), Kelsey Leos Montoya (actor),
Plot: Hamlet is haunted by the possibility that his Latin Lover Uncle Claudio is a vampire who murdered Hamlet's father in order to become king and seduce Hamlet's mother, Gertrude. As the obvious truth slaps Hamlet in the face, he must suppress his desires to become a male cheerleader, and face the fact that he is the chosen one who must face the demons of darkness. Along the way, he is aided by his faithful friend Horatio, The Playa King, and two of Europe's finest vampire slayers, Othello and MacBeth. Hamlet's path is obstacled by his frat-buddies-turned-bloodsuckers, Rosenchad and Guildenbrad, and his insane, obsessed girlfriend, Ophelia, and her bad ass cheerleading brother, Laertes. In the end, it all comes down to a battle of vampires and wits, as Hamlet and Laertes dual it out in a no-holds-barred, male cheerleading dance off that can only end in one thing - DEATH!!!
Keywords: character-name-in-title, melodrama, modern-day-adaptation, shakespeare's-hamlet, shakespeare-adaption, shakespeare-in-modern-dress, vampireActors: Sándor Gáspár (actor), Gyula Bodrogi (actor), Péter Scherer (actor), Ferenc Zenthe (actor), Gábor Reviczky (actor), Ildikó Bánsági (actress), Péter Haumann (actor), Imre Csuja (actor), Gyözö Szabó (actor), Zoltán Mucsi (actor), György Bárdy (actor), Sándor Lukács (actor), Géza Balkay (actor), László Helyey (actor), János Gálvölgyi (actor),
Genres: Adventure, Comedy,Actors: Peter Dommisch (actor), Rolf Herricht (actor), Ingeborg Naß (actress), Paul Arenkens (actor), Rolf Herricht (actor), Alfred Müller (actor), Helga Hahnemann (actress), Helga Hahnemann (actress), Herbert Köfer (actor), Stefan Lisewski (actor), Wilfried Ortmann (actor), Roberto Blanco (actor), Margot Ebert (actress), Jirí Korn (actor), Gunther Emmerlich (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Kim Cattrall (actress), Barbara Windsor (actress), Macha Méril (actress), Naveen Andrews (actor), Hakeem Kae-Kazim (actor), Shane Rimmer (actor), Kim Cattrall (actress), Christopher Lee (actor), Kevork Malikyan (actor), Simon Giles (miscellaneous crew), Tony Grisoni (writer), Steve Walsh (producer), Mary Higgins Clark (writer), Patrick Moine (producer), Chris Wimble (editor),
Plot: The telepathy between identical twins: conventional Caroline lives with her father and is engaged; Lisa is hard-drinking, devil-may-care, living in London as a high-class call girl. Caroline has horrid dreams of Lisa dying, so she flies to London to help. To find out what befell Lisa, Caroline submerges herself in Lisa's dangerous milieu, seeking help from an East Indian cabdriver who loved Lisa, and continuing to have dreams and visions. Then, while staying in Lisa's flat, wearing Lisa's clothes, and avoiding her own fiance, who has followed her over from the States, Caroline follows her instincts to confront what did happen in her sister's last minutes of life.
Keywords: sister, twinsActors: Jean Martin (actor), Michel Aumont (actor), Jacques Villeret (actor), Jean-Paul Muel (actor), Franck-Olivier Bonnet (actor), Daniel Auteuil (actor), Jean Rougerie (actor), Roger Miremont (actor), Féodor Atkine (actor), Jean-François Dérec (actor), Jean Lanier (actor), Gérard Lanvin (actor), Gérard Caillaud (actor), Didier Kaminka (writer), Catherine Lachens (actress),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Rolf Römer (actor), Rolf Herricht (actor), Edwin Marian (actor), Manfred Krug (actor), Rolf Römer (writer), Rolf Römer (actor), Annekathrin Bürger (actress), Peter Dommisch (actor), Karin Beewen (actress), Milivoje Popovic-Mavid (actor), Lothar Warneke (actor), Lothar Warneke (director), Inge Kistner (costume designer), Wolfgang Ebeling (writer), Ursula Zweig (editor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: William Shakespeare (writer), Vakhtang Chabukiani (actor), Vakhtang Chabukiani (director), Aleqsi Machavariani (composer), Vakhtang Chabukiani (writer), Zura Kikaleishvili (actor), V. Chichinadze (producer), V. Ivashkin (miscellaneous crew), V. Ivashkin (actor), B. Monavardiazashvili (actor), Vera Tsignadze (actress), I. Gelovani (writer), M. Romanova (editor), M. Dudko (actor), A. Tsereteli (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Drama, Musical, Romance,Actors: William Shakespeare (writer), Arnold Diamond (actor), Yevgeni Vesnik (actor), Howard Marion-Crawford (actor), Irina Skobtseva (actress), Sergey Bondarchuk (actor), Kathleen Byron (actress), Evgeniy Teterin (actor), Sergei Yutkevich (writer), Sergei Yutkevich (director), Richard Warner (actor), Vladimir Soshalsky (actor), Andrei Popov (actor), Patrick Westwood (actor), Mikhail Troyanovsky (actor),
Plot: Othello is a Moorish military hero married to young and beautiful Desdemona. Envious Iago is scheming against Othello. By planting a fake evidence, Iago provokes Othello's suspicion of Desdemona's infidelity. Enraged Othello loses control and kills Desdemona, then realizes his mistake and kills himself.
Keywords: based-on-play, betrayal, character-name-in-title, foreign-language-adaptation, husband-wife-relationship, jealousy, love, racism, shakespeare's-othello, tragedyCe mouchoir, je te l'ai offert
Le jour de ton anniversaire
Il est fait de dentelle fine
Léger comme la mousseline
Ce mouchoir, je l'ai vu tomber
L'autre soir du nouveau complet
De Cassio, quand il t'a conviée
A boire un verre et à danser
Desdemone, je t'aime comme personne
Je t'aime comme personne, je t'aime comme personne
Mais la jalousie fait sonner
Les trompettes de Jéricho dans le coeur de pierre d'Othello
Ce mouchoir, te l'a-t-il volé?
Ce mouchoir, lui as-tu donné?
Après tout, ce n'est pas un crime
Puisque c'est notre ami intime
Mais il paraît qu'on t'aurait vue
Avec lui, bras dessous dessus
Sortir d'un hôtel de banlieue,
Yago me l'a dit, des larmes plein les yeux
Desdemone, je t'aime comme personne
Je t'aime comme personne, je t'aime comme personne
Mais la jalousie fait sonner
Les trompettes de Jéricho dans le coeur de pierre d'Othello
Qu'as-tu fait, que n'as-tu pas fait?
Ces questions cent fois répétées
Font que j'ai peur, un de ces soirs,
D'aller trop loin sans le vouloir
Pour le voir cracher sa douleur
Dedans ce mouchoir de malheur
Que tu lui as donné un jour
Par amitié, ou qui sait par amour?
Desdemone, je t'aime comme personne
Je t'aime comme personne, je t'aime comme personne
Mais la jalousie fait sonner