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  1. Sommernachtstraum, Ein (1925 Film)

    aka: Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Wood Love Heiteres Fastnachtsspeil, Ein

    Director
    Hans Neumann
    Producer
    Hans Neumann

    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...

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  2. Kaufmann von Venedig, Der (1923 Film)

    aka: Shylock, Der Jude von Venedig Jew of Mestri, The

    Director
    Peter Paul Felner
    Producer
    Peter Paul Felner

    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.

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  3. Alte Gesetz, Das (1923 Film)

    aka: Baruch Ancient Law, The

    Director
    Ewald André Dupont

    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...

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  4. Othello (1922 Film)

    aka: Moor, The

    Director
    Dimitri Buchowetzki
    Producer
    Paul Blumenthal

    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.

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