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Fiction film. The connection to Shakespeare’s play is tenuous but the plot is set in Cyprus and involves rivalry for a girl’s affections and the attempted vengeance of the disappointed lover.
Fiction short based on Julius Caesar which largely follows the main events of the play from the death of Caesar to the death of Brutus. Guazzoni remade the story for Cines in 1914 for the feature length...
Abbreviated version of the play directed by Mario Caserini with Amleto Novelli as Hamlet.
Shortened version of the play which depicts most of the main events but omits the Edgar subplot. Ball (op cit) comments ‘Without subtitles this film could not be understood at all...one sees only tirades...
A shortened version of the play which omits the casket scene and the business concerning Portia’s ring. Some scenes were filmed in Venice.
A version of The Winter’s Tale. Cines’ press material reads ‘a magnificent series of pictures dealing with episodes in Shakespeare’s wonderful tragedy. Acted in the most perfect manner, amid scenes...
An abbreviated version of the play. Ball finds the picture disappointing, commenting on the poorly handled crowd scenes, unnecessary invented action, and primitive photography and acting.
Silent version of Macbeth presented as an historical spectacle and directed by Mario Caserini with Dante Capelli and Maria Gasperini as the Macbeths. Contemporary accounts speak of ‘very fine tableaux’...
Fiction film version of Othello, filmed mostly on location in Venice, with Ferruccio Garavaglia as Othello.
Fiction short. A version of Hamlet.
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