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/OTHELLO/ (1981)

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Dvd Region: 2+4 Pal (UK & Europe)
Certificate: U
Running Time: Approx. 205 minutes
Type: Fullscreen
Originally Transmitted: 4th October 1981
Dvd Release Date: 2005
Released By: BBC Worldwide Ltd.
Distributed By: DD Home Entertainment
Format: Colour Dvd Pal
Language: English
Subtitles: English sdh
Audio: Mono
Format: 4:3
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A TRAGEDIE
In 1978, the BBC set itself the task of filming all of William Shakespeare’s plays for television. The resulting productions, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilised the best theatrical and television directors and brought great performances from leading contemporary actors.

"O beware, my lord, of jealousy:
It is the green-eyed monster
which doth mock the meat it feeds on.”
When the young Desdemona defies her father to marry Othello, the Moor of Venice seems to have everything – love, friendship, status and respect. But within Othello’s great love for his bride lies the seeds of its own destruction. And, from his own ranks, comes the slighted Iago – a manipulative figure who is prepared to nurture the Moor’s misgivings for his own interests . . .
Jonathan Millar’s magnificent production utilises the indubitable talents of Anthony Hopkins and Bob Hoskins in the lead roles of Shakespeare’s theatrical masterpiece. Indeed Hopkins admitted, “Othello is the part I’ve always most wanted to play.” Together they weave an increasingly tense web of manipulation, deception and jealousy on a tragic path to self-understanding.

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"Tush, never tell me! I take it much unkindly
That thou, Iago, who hast had my purse
As if the strings were thine, shouldst know of this….”
Anthony Hopkins
and
Bob Hoskins - Penelope Wilton
Rosemary Leach
Produced & Directed by Jonathan Miller
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DRAMATIS PERSONAE:
In credits order
Anthony Pedley ... Roderigo
Bob Hoskins ... Iago
Geoffrey Chater ... Brabantio
Alexander Davion ... Gratiano
Anthony Hopkins ... Othello
David Yelland ... Cassio
Joseph O'Conor ... Lodovico
Peter Walmsley ... Officer
John Barron ... Duke of Venice
Seymour Green ... First Senator
Howard Goorney ... Second Senator
Penelope Wilton ... Desdemona
Rosemary Leach ... Emilia
Tony Steedman ... Montano
Max Harvey ... First Gentleman
Terence McGinity ... Second Gentleman
Nigel Nobes ... Third Gentleman
Wendy Morgan ... Bianca
Arabella Weir ... Lady in Waiting

Director: Jonathan Miller
Produced: Jonathan Miller
Adapted: William Shakespeare’s original play
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William Shakespeare
Hys Most Excellent and
Tragedie
Othello
The Moor of Venice

ABOUT OTHELLO
Concentrating on the basic emotions unleashed in Othello, an intensely personal tragedy is played out in Miller’s intimate production, his bold, unconventional casting adding an inspired dimension to the play…. Othello was given before James I in the Banqueting House at Whitehall on 1st November 1604. Information about the Turkish invasion of Cyprus appears to derive from Richard Knolles’s History of the Turks, published no earlier than 30th September 1603, so Shakespeare probably completed his play sometime between that date and the Summer of 1604. It first appeared in print in a quarto of 1622 . . .

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