Othello (1955 film)

Othello (Отелло)
Film poster
Directed by	Sergei Yutkevich
Written by	William Shakespeare Sergei Yutkevich
Starring	Sergei Bondarchuk Irina Skobtseva Andrei Popov Vladimir Soshalsky Yevgeni Vesnik
Cinematography	Yevgeni Andrikanis
Edited by	Klavdiya Aleyeva G. Mariamov
Music by	Aram Khachaturian
Release date	13 March 1956 (1956-03-13) (USSR)
Running time	107 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Othello (Russian: Отелло) is a 1956 Soviet drama film directed by Sergei Yutkevich, based on the play Othello by William Shakespeare. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival, where Yutkevich received the Best Director Award.

Cast

• Sergei Bondarchuk (in blackface) as Othello
• Irina Skobtseva as Desdemona
• Andrei Popov as Iago
• Vladimir Soshalsky as Cassio
• Yevgeni Vesnik as Roderigo
• Antonina Maksimova as Emilia
• Mikhail Troyanovsky as Doge of Venice
• Yevgeni Teterin as Brabantio (as Ye. Teterin)

Further reading

• 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

• Othello at IMDb