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Othello (1922 Film)
''Othello'' is a 1922 German silent historical romantic drama film directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki, and starring Emil Jannings, Werner Krauss and Ica von Lenkeffy. It was based on William Shakespeare's play '' The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice'', the first of six major film adaptations of the work. It was shot at the Johannisthal Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art director Karl Machus. Cast * Emil Jannings as Othello * Werner Krauss as Iago * Ica von Lenkeffy as Desdemona * Theodor Loos as Cassio * Ferdinand von Alten as Rodrigo * Friedrich Kühne as Brabantio * Magnus Stifter as Montano * Lya De Putti as Emilia * Ludwig Rex Ludwig Rex (1 January 1888 – 29 September 1979) was a German film actor of the silent era. He appeared in 55 films between 1918 and 1927. He was born in Berlin, Germany and died in London. Selected filmography * ''Totenkopfreiter'' (1917 ... Home media The film was released on DVD on 19 June 2001. Referenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dimitri Buchowetzki
Dimitri Buchowetzki (1885–1932) born Dmitry Savelyevych Bukhovecky was a Russian film director, screenwriter, and actor in Germany, Sweden, United States, United Kingdom, and France. Life and career Initially Buchowetzki studied law. Later he starred in a number of silent films, mostly playing antagonistic characters, including Yakov Protazanov’s melodramas ''Giant of the Spirit'' (1918) and ''Maidservant Jenny'' (1918). He played the hussar officer Minski in Aleksandr Ivanovski’s Pushkin adaptation ''The Stationmaster'' (1918) and appeared in the title role of Aleksandr Razumnyi’s pro-Bolshevik film ''Comrade Abram'' (1919). In 1919, Buchowetzki immigrated to Germany, via Poland, where he directed his most artistic works: the expressionistic Fedor Dostoevsky adaptation ''The Brothers Karamazov'' (1921), the historical drama ''Danton'' (1921, based on Georg Büchner’s play), and '' Othello'' (1922), all starring Emil Jannings. Bukhovetski also made high-budget period ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Director
Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film industry, film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and unify the vision of an artistic production. In particular, they are in charge of its overall visual appearance and how it visual communication, communicates visually, stimulates moods, contrasts features, and psychologically appeals to a target audience. The art director makes decisions about visual elements, what artistic style (visual arts), style(s) to use, and when to use motion graphic design, motion. One of the biggest challenges art directors face is translating desired moods, messages, concepts, and underdeveloped ideas into imagery. In the brainstorming process, art directors, colleagues and clients explore ways the finished piece or scene could look. At times, the art director is responsible for solidifying the vision of the col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Historical Drama Films
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Films Of The Weimar Republic
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1920s Historical Drama Films
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1922 Films
The following is an overview of 1922 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top nine films released in 1922 by U.S. gross are as follows: Events * June 11 – United States première of Robert J. Flaherty's ''Nanook of the North'', the first commercially successful feature length documentary film. * November 26 – '' The Toll of the Sea'', starring Anna May Wong and Kenneth Harlan, debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor (''The Gulf Between'' was the first film to do so but it was not widely distributed). Notable films released in 1922 United States unless stated A *''At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern'' (lost), directed by Lloyd Ingraham, based on the 1905 novel by Myrtle Reed B *''The Bachelor Daddy'' (lost), directed by Alfred E. Green, starring Thomas Meighan *''The Beautiful and Damned'' (lost), directed by William A. Seiter, starring Marie Prevost * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludwig Rex
Ludwig Rex (1 January 1888 – 29 September 1979) was a German film actor of the silent era. He appeared in 55 films between 1918 and 1927. He was born in Berlin, Germany and died in London. Selected filmography * ''Totenkopfreiter'' (1917) - Napoleon * ''The Merry Wives of Windsor'' (1918) - Herr Reich * ''Arno Starks Kraft'' (1918) - Arno Stark * ''Der Fluch des Nuri'' (1918) - Nuri * '' Nocturne of Love'' (1919) * ''Die lachende Seele'' (1919) * ''Der neue Herr Generaldirektor'' (1919) * ''Homo sum'' (1919) * ''Seelenverkäufer'' (1919) - Kapitän Brooks * ''Die Geächteten'' (1919) - Wirt Petruk Czapka * ''Um Diamanten und Frauen'' (1919) - Mr. Hunter * ''Retter der Menschheit'' (1919) - Felsen * ''Fluch der Vergangenheit'' (1919) - Bertram * ''Der Glücksschmid'' (1919) - Tobias Möhring, Dorfschmied * ''Luxuspflänzchen'' (1919) * ''Die Teufelsgeige'' (1919) * ''Die siebente Großmacht'' (1919) * ''Der Tintenfischclub'' (1919) * ''Gewalt gegen Recht'' (1920) * ''The S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magnus Stifter
Magnus Stifter (23 January 1878 – 8 September 1943) was an Austrian stage and film actor. He appeared in 85 films between 1914 and 1941. He was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (now Austria), and died in Vienna, Austria. Selected filmography * '' The ABC of Love'' (1916) * '' Your Dearest Enemy'' (1916) * ''When the Heart Burns with Hate'' (1917) * '' Carmen'' (1918) * '' Between Two Worlds'' (1919) * '' The Woman at the Crossroads'' (1919) * '' State Attorney Jordan'' (1919) * '' Out of the Depths'' (1919) * '' Prince Cuckoo'' (1919) * '' Veritas Vincit'' (1919) * '' The Duty to Live'' (1919) * '' The Devil and the Madonna'' (1919) * '' Countess Walewska'' (1920) * '' Der Januskopf'' (1920) * '' Die Frau im Delphin'' (1920) * '' The Lady in Black'' (1920) * '' The Conspiracy in Genoa'' (1921) * '' At War in the Diamond Fields'' (1921) * '' The Handicap of Love'' (1921) * ''The Bull of Olivera'' (1921) * '' The Secret of the Mummy'' (1921) * '' The Adventuress of Monte Carl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich Kühne
Friedrich Kühne (24 April 1870 – 13 October 1959), born Franz Michna, was a German film actor of the silent era. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1913 and 1957. Selected filmography * ''The Iron Cross'' (1914) * ''Detektiv Braun'' (1914) * ''Der Hund von Baskerville'' (''The Hound of the Baskervilles'') (1914) as Stapleton * '' The Silent Mill'' (1914) * ''Tales of Hoffmann'' (1916) * '' Ferdinand Lassalle'' (1918) * '' The Prisoner of Dahomey'' (1918) * ''Alraune, die Henkerstochter, genannt die rote Hanne'' (1918) * '' Opium'' (1919) * '' Veritas Vincit'' (1919) * '' The Spiders'' (1919-1920, 2 parts) * '' Judith Trachtenberg'' (1920) * ''The Song of the Puszta'' (1920) * ''Lady Hamilton'' (1921) * ''The Terror of the Red Mill'' (1921) * '' The Black Panther'' (1921) * ''Danton'' (1921) * ''Children of Darkness'' (1921) * ''Hashish, the Paradise of Hell'' (1921) * '' Treasure of the Aztecs'' (1921) * ''Die Gezeichneten'' (1922) * ''The False Dimitri'' (1922) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferdinand Von Alten
Ferdinand is a Germanic name composed of the elements "protection", "peace" (PIE "to love, to make peace") or alternatively "journey, travel", Proto-Germanic , abstract noun from root "to fare, travel" (PIE , "to lead, pass over"), and "courage" or "ready, prepared" related to Old High German "to risk, venture." The name was adopted in Romance languages from its use in the Visigothic Kingdom. It is reconstructed as either Gothic or . It became popular in German-speaking Europe only from the 16th century, with Habsburg rule over Spain. Variants of the name include , , , and in Spanish, in Catalan, and and in Portuguese. The French forms are , '' Fernand'', and , and it is '' Ferdinando'' and in Italian. In Hungarian both and are used equally. The Dutch forms are and '' Ferry''. There are numerous short forms in many languages, such as the Finnish . There is a feminine Spanish, Portuguese and Italian form, . Royalty Aragón/León/Castile/Spain *Ferd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Cassio
Michael Cassio, or simply Cassio (), is a fictional character in William Shakespeare's ''Othello''. The source of the character is the 1565 tale "Un Capitano Moro" by Cinthio; Cassio is unnamed in Cinthio but referred to as "the squadron leader". In the play, Cassio is a young and handsome lieutenant under Othello's command who becomes one of Iago's several victims in a plot to ruin Othello. Sources ''Othello'' has its source in the 1565 tale "Un Capitano Moro" from ''Gli Hecatommithi'' by Giovanni Battista Giraldi Cinthio. His story may have been based on a historical incident which occurred in Venice around 1508. No English translation of Cinthio was available in Shakespeare's lifetime. Gabriel Chappuy had produced a French translation in 1584, but Shakespeare's version hews more closely to the original.Shakespeare, William. Four Tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth'. Bantam Books, 1988. Cassio is based upon Cinthio's squadron leader. Role in ''Othello'' Cassio is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
