Film Adaptation
Othello is a 1995 film based on William Shakespeare's tragedy of the same name. It was directed by Oliver Parker and stars Laurence Fishburne as Othello, Irène Jacob as Desdemona, and Kenneth Branagh as Iago. This is the first cinematic reproduction of the play released by a major studio that casts an African American actor to play the role of Othello, although low-budget independent films of the play starring Ted Lange and Yaphet Kotto predated it.
Fishburne and Branagh are standouts as the accomplished hero and as the scheming Iago. "Othello" is a Fall of Man drama - at the hands of evil, that is. The fact that Iago undoes Othello so methodically and effectively is breathtaking.
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Note. The numbers in the title refer to the play number (3.28) and publication year (1603), which Wikipedia noted based on the Oxford chronology.
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