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Miroir de Venise (Une Mésaventure de Shylock), Le

Alternative title
Venetian Looking Glass
Synopsis
Fiction film, possibly based on The Merchant of Venice.
Country
France
Medium
Film
Technical information
Black-and-white / Silent
Year of release
1905
Duration
215 mins
Availability
No archive copy known. Presumed a lost film.

Credits

Director
Georges Méliès

Additional Details

Production type
Fiction Films
Plays
Merchant of Venice, The
Subjects
Drama
Keywords
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Notes

Notes
Source: Ball, Robert Hamilton. Shakespeare on Silent Film: A Strange Eventful History. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1968 (p. 34, 307). Ball surmises that there may be very little relationship to Shakespeare and notes that there is no extant scenario.

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