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Feature film in theory based on Shakespeare’s own sources for The Merchant of Venice but in practice partly Shakespeare and partly director Felner’s invention. Werner Krauss is Shylock.
A version of the play, based on both Cinthio’s original tale and Shakespeare’s play, with echoes of Reinhardt and Expressionism. Emil Jannings is Othello.
Feature film. In nineteenth-century Austria, a young Jew leaves the ghetto to become an actor. He eventually becomes famous and is reunited with his disapproving Rabbi father. Ernst Deutsch, as the Jew...
Feature film which appears to have combined great charm and ribaldry. Ball, summarising contemporary reviews, writes: ‘Theseus was shown at the telephone, Amazons and Athenians moved into battle to the...