Movie Details
Original Language:German
Production Companies:Signed Media, ZDF, ARTE
The Legacy of Othello on the Web:Official Website
Cast & Crew
J
Joel Schultze-Motel
as Othello
The Legacy of Othello
Audience Score
53 minHistory,
Documentary
Plot
A fascinating exploration of the literary — The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice, by English playwright William Shakespeare (1604) — and lyrical — Othello, by Italian opera composer Giuseppe Verdi (1887) — myth of Othello, the desperately tragic story of a Moorish general in the army of the Venetian Republic whose absurd jealousy poisons his love for his wife Desdemona.
