The Legacy of Othello

8.0

Genre: Documentary History
Run time: 53 min
Premiere: 2022. June 12.

Director: Dag Freyer
Writer: Dag Freyer
Starring: Joel Schultze-Motel Oliver Magda Katrin Katz Köbbert Jonas Kaufmann

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.